Author Profile: Cara Alwill Leyba
Author: Cara Alwill Leyba Website: http://www.livecreatesparkle.com/ Bio: Cara Alwill Leyba is a best selling author, and certified life and wellness coach from New York City…
Author: Cara Alwill Leyba Website: http://www.livecreatesparkle.com/ Bio: Cara Alwill Leyba is a best selling author, and certified life and wellness coach from New York City…
I was giving a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
An Imperfect Wife is a Novella about one of the biggest issues in a marriage…..How to keep your marriage going even through extreme changes and hard bumps. The main character finds herself in that very common situation of feeling isolated and alone, and very abandoned by her husband. She ends up turning to her husband’s boss because he gives her that amazing attention she is really seeking from her own husband. I love and hate this story. I love it, because I can truly relate-I have felt what she feels and I can recognize how easy it would be to do the wrong thing for the right kind of attention-I hate it for the same reason…..
However, in saying all that. The book was written very well. You truly do sympathize with this young wife who up and moved to a new place with no outside support and you watch as she begs her husband to help her adjust. I won’t spoil how the book ends…but I do actually like the ending very much. Alll in all this was a great read and it was very easy to attach to the character’s in the story.
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I received a copy of Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
A sweet and satisfying novel of how delicious it is to discover your dream
Issy Randall can bake. No, Issy can create stunning, mouthwateringly divine cakes. After a childhood spent in her beloved Grampa Joe’s bakery, she has undoubtedly inherited his talent. She’s much better at baking than she is a filing so when she’s laid off from her desk job, Issy decides to open her own little café. But she soon learns that her piece-of-cake plan will take all of her courage and confectionary talent to avert disaster.
Funny and sharp, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café is about how life might not always taste like you expect, but there’s always room for dessert!
Review:
I liked a lot of things right off the bat about this book – the title, the cover, and the sweet tagline. I thought this book would be right up my alley, but it seems to have missed the mark for me. I think there were too many POV’s for my liking. It seems everyone got a chance to chime in, and the story would have been easier to follow if only one or two characters got the lead. I did really enjoy the storyline between Issy and her grandfather, and the sections with Issy and her on and off again boyfriend were interesting to read about. While this wasn’t a favorite novel of mine, I didn’t highly dislike and wouldn’t not recommend for reading. It’s still a cute chick lit book, I just had trouble connecting with the story.
3 stars
“If Bridget Jones and some super-famous-and-crazy-enlightened yogi had a baby, it would be SECRETS OF A SPIRITUAL GURU. Achingly funny and impossibly wise, GURU gives chick lit fans a brand new, hilarious, adorably bumbling heroine to love. Anyone who’s ever tried to buck up and find balance will be a little bit freaked out because I’m pretty sure Tamara is spying on us all.”
Jenna McCarthy, author of If It Was Easy They’d Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living with and Loving the TV-Addicted, Sex-Obsessed, Not-so-handy Man You Married (www.jennamccarthy.com)
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