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| Original Cover |
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The blurb:
Meet Robin Wilde! You'll make a friend for life
and she'll take you on a journey you'll never forget ...
Single mum Robin Wilde adores her six-year-old
daughter and loves her job as a make up artist's assistant. She has a wonderful
best friend and an auntie who is bonkers, yes, but loves her to the moon and
back.
But Robin has a secret. Behind the mask she
carefully applies every day, things just feel ... grey. And lonely. She
struggles to fit in with the school mum crew. Online dating is totally
despair-inducing, and she worries every day about raising her little girl with
self-confidence, courage and joy.
What Robin longs for is someone (over the age of
six) to share with - someone who's always on her team.
After 4 years (2 months, and 15 days!) of
single-mum-dom, it's time for Robin Wilde to Change. Her. Life.
Exciting new opportunities are about to come
Robin's way ... Perhaps a man, perhaps the chance of a lifetime ...
What will Robin do with the possibilities she
creates for herself? And what potential will she unlock if she takes the leap?
My Opinion:
I discovered Louise on YouTube about 2 years ago, when
I started following some bloggers on there. I watched her videos from time to
time, especially when her daughter was in them. Louise is very funny, bubbly
and fresh, so when I heard she was publishing a fiction book, I got really
curious.
The story follows Robin Wilde, who is a single mum to 6-year-old
Lyla and she works part time as a make-up artist. She is longing for a
relationship and really knows what she wants. It’s not so easy however, to find
a man like this. She also wants to be successful in her job and be more than
just an assistant. She struggles to fit in with the other school mums, but she
has a great best friend and aunt, who are always there for her. A great
opportunity comes up and I really liked going on that journey with Robin.
Louise Pentland’s writing is very natural, funny and
light-hearted. I struggled with the structure of the book, the pace of the
storyline didn’t make sense for me and I even lost interest at times. The
interest always came back though and I was really routing for Robin. That’s
probably also why I was a bit disappointed in the ending, it was not a round
ending, something was missing. There will be a second book though, right?! The
depth was missing for me, which is a shame, but I still enjoyed the story.
It was lovely to spot Louise’s personality come
through the writing, I even felt like she was there narrating the whole thing!
Rating:
Louise Puntland on Twitter: @LouisePentland
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