A book club everyone would want to be a member of! Me included!!!

Synopsis

Welcome to the Beach Reads Book Club…where love is just a page away…

When Lottie Watt is unceremoniously booted out of her uptight book club for not following the rules, she decides to throw the rulebook out the window and start her own club – one where conversation, gin and cake take precedent over actually having read the book!

The Beach Reads Book Club soon finds a home for its meetings at Books by the Bay, a charming bookshop and café owned by gorgeous, brooding Matthew Steele, and as the book club picks heat up, so too does the attraction between Matt and Lottie.

If there’s anything Lottie has learned from the romances she’s been reading, it’s that the greatest loves are the ones hardest earned.

A love letter to chicklit, romance, romcoms, whatever you want to call them!

My review

When Lottie Watt is not following the strict rules of a book club she is in, she is being kicked out. for her, a book club is not only about reading the book, but also a time for likeminded persons to gather around and enjoy a conversation. The book itself isn’t the most important, but the people in the book club are. And a book club means reading all kind of genres, and not only the heavier stuff.
So that’s why Lottie start her own book club, The Beach Reads Book Club, where just everyone is welcome.
Place for their gathering is charming bookshop Books by the Bay, with its own café. And owner Matthew Steele is surely an extra advantage to look at! The attraction between Lottie and Matt is becoming impossible to ignore, but with the past changing them into the people they are now, will that make them hold back? Or is their love worth the fight?

I just love this author and her books, what more can I say???

Also this book made me forget everything around me, made me want to jump into the book and be part of this marvellous, funny book club!

The book club Lottie has been excluded from, isn’t the kind of book club I want to be a member of myself! Of course, I know that the purpose of a book club is to talk about the book, but having to talk about it all the time, without getting to know the other members, because the book is all that matters…
So I was happy when Lottie started her own book club, allowing all kind of people in taking part. Old, young, man, woman,… it doesn’t matter as long. Even if you just wat to listen while drinking gin and eating cake, that’s all fine!

Lottie is a force of nature, she knows what she wants, and she just goes for it. She wants the meetings to be held at the bookshop? Not a problem…
She wants more days for her meetings? Not a problem!
She is also a kind and warm woman. She sees the struggles members are having, and uses her ‘power’ so that people open up and share what is troubling them. And on her own way, Lottie finds each time a fitting solution!

Matt is often her victim, as his attraction towards her makes it impossible to say ‘no’ to her. Oh Matt… he made my heart beat faster…
He is not the typical guy you would expect in a book. What he has been through in the past only made me feel more for him. And his past changed him into this brooding and even insecure man, afraid of showing his real feelings…

I found this again a wonderful story to read, not only because of Lottie and Matt and their developing relationship, but also because it shows us that no matter how different you are from each other, friendships can be built. Every one of us is unique in our own way, but no matter how crazy, silly, quiet, shy you are, the right people accept you as you are. And once you are in this amazing book club, you are not only member of a book club, but you are part of a family.

Another great achievement from this author! I cannot wait to read what amazing story she is able to put down into words again!