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Love Potions Christina Jones
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When aromatherapist Sukie Ambrose starts using her cottage garden as inspiration - and raw ingredients - for her products, she thinks she's just hit on a good way of saving money while offering her clients a way of de-stressing and relaxation. However, Sukie lives in a village where strange things have been known to happen. She discovers that her new improved lotions and potions are making her massages distinctly magical - and producing more star-crossed lovers than Shakespeare could ever dream of... 'H.E. Bates for the 21st Century.' Katie
Fforde
'Sexy... unputdownable... a heart-thumping read.' Company
'Bloody good read...Funny, romantic book...a lively romp through rural England.' New
Woman
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Review by Chrissi (300411) Rating (7/10) Review
by Chrissi I loved Sukie as a catalyst for the changes that she brings, mainly accidentally, to the people around her when she starts to practice aromatherapy. As a character I found her a little lacking, but as a central catalyst, she was just lovely. It seemed to take ages for her story to really develop, but in the meantime, we learn about those around her and how people are not necessarily how we may perceive them at first. It is easy to forget that older people were young once and that there was an entire generation who never had the opportunity to get married because their young men went away and never returned. This was sad, the retelling of stories which ended with a woman spending her life alone rather than settle for anything less than the love she had briefly experienced a lifetime ago, compared with a later discovered story of a woman who accepted the suit of a man and did her best to be happy with him.
Essentially this is a story of second chances, with an unexpected
opportunity at a new life, assisted a little with the many unknown
properties of locally grown and harvested plant extracts. The
story, as ever, is an affectionate look at people, whom you may
not like at first but whose stories are much more than they seem.
I must say that I would like to retire to live in Christina Jones’
villages, they are so nice and full of possibilities, but I rather
think it is not safe to take anything from one of the locals,
you never know what might happen! |
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