Book Review, Giveaway: Spring at The Little Duck Pond Cafe by Rosie Green

Spring at The Little Duck Pond Cafe 

by Rosie Green

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Fleeing from a romance gone wrong, Ellie Farmer arrives in the pretty little village of Sunnybrook, hoping for a brand new start that most definitely does not include love! Following an unscheduled soak in the village duck pond, she meets Sylvia, who runs the nearby Duck Pond Café. Renting the little flat above the café seems like the answer to Ellie's prayers. It's only for six months, which will give her time to sort out her life, far away from cheating boyfriend Richard.

But is running away from your past ever really the answer?

Clashing with the mysterious and brooding Zack Chamberlain, an author with a bad case of writer's block, is definitely not what Ellie needs right now. And then there's Sylvia, who's clinging so hard to her past, she's in danger of losing the quaint but run-down Duck Pond Café altogether.

Can Ellie find the answers she desperately needs in Sunnybrook? And will she be able to help save Sylvia's little Duck Pond Café from closure?

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

… all the bravado drains out of me, leaving me feeling like a balloon three days after the party.

After all, they do say the joy of being a grandparent is that you can hand the little terror back at the end of the day . . .

My Review:

While reading, I vacillated in how to rate this slowly developing and somewhat bittersweet tale about a small British village, where each of the main characters appears to be in a transitional stage in their lives.  The premise was relevant and the storylines and writing were chaste enough for my elderly mother’s church ladies book club, yet still held my attention, which is rare ;).   As the first story in a trilogy, the stage was being set for subsequent installments, which was thankfully done without feeling like an information dump - yet it felt a bit flat to me.  While there were humorous items and amusing observations, the story seemed to come up a little short of a Four-Star ranking, but close enough.  I enjoyed the quirky characters and look forward to their future antics and adventures and proudly have two new additions to my Brit vocabulary list which now includes “came a cropper” which is to fall headlong, and “browned off” which is to be greatly annoyed.  I do love being able to claim learning something new.  

Empress DJ

Author Bio

Rosie Green has been scribbling stories ever since she was little. Back then they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by ‘the baddies’. Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all, unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love.

Rosie’s brand new series of novellas is centered on life in a village café. The first, Spring at the Little Duck Pond Café, is out on March 22nd, 2018.



Twitter - https://twitter.com/Rosie_Green1988

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I’ve written seven romantic comedies, the first published back in 2014.


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