Island in the Sun

by Janice Horton

Amazon

When successful jewelry designer Isla Ashton unexpectedly inherits her eccentric Aunt Kate’s Caribbean island, she is obligated to return to the place she associates with heartache and regret. To where she grew up and fell in love with her childhood friend, Leo Fernandez. Fully intent on selling the island and finally putting the past behind her, Isla is soon compelled to put together the pieces of what really happened on a fateful night ten-years before. She begins to believe that in going to prison, Leo hadn’t only been shielding her from the same fate. She also starts to suspect that her late Aunt hadn’t been entirely honest in sending her away under the guise of recriminations. Who had they both been protecting and why?

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My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

Her memories though, were like snippets of old video mixed with feelings of fledgling excitement and anxiety.

To encourage attendance, Minister John has suggested using fine port wine for his blessings and the best filtered vodka as holy water, although I got him to agree to using plain water during the baptism of infants. As he predicted, this Sunday, there was a queue for communion and a great demand for adults to earnestly profess their faith. John’s sermons too are rather unconventional as he often quotes Bob Dylan or Pink Floyd or John Lennon lyrics rather than those of the Bible.

My Review:

This creative tale covered several highly eventful timelines and was brimming with unusually complicated and frustrating, yet highly compelling characters, who had come to call a small privately owned island in the Caribbean their home. A dead woman’s journals pulled all the elements and long-buried secrets into focus with layers of shocking revelations within her recounting of a truckload of exciting events, all craftily layered with unique twists and included several generations of family drama, dark secrets, a glamorous lifestyle, criminal histories, love affairs, gambling, treasure hunting, infidelity, manipulative lies, and mental health issues.

Ms. Horton’s writing was absorbingly engaging and lushly detailed while filled with a bevy of intriguing, quirky, and stubborn characters. I couldn’t seem to read fast enough as the missing pieces to several mysteries started to shake loose.

About the Author

Janice Horton, also affectionately known as the backpacking housewife, writes contemporary romantic fiction with a dash of humor and a sense of adventure. Once her three children had grown up, Janice and her backpacking husband sold their empty nest in Scotland UK along with almost everything they owned and set off to travel the world. Since then they have been traveling full-time and have explored over 50 countries, living out of an apartment, a hut, or wherever they happen to find themselves.

Janice works as a writer wherever she is in the world. When not writing bestselling romantic adventure novels, she writes lifestyle and travel features for her website and her work has featured in national and international magazines like ‘Prima’ in the UK and ‘Friday’ in Dubai. She has also been involved in BBC Scotland’s Write Here Write Now project and has been interviewed on many podcasts and radio shows including Loose Women’s Kaye Adams’ prime time BBC Radio Scotland Show.

10 Replies to “Book Review: Island in the Sun by Janice Horton”

Hi Empress DJ! Thank you so very much for reading and reviewing Island in the Sun. I’m thrilled to read your review and your favourite quotes from the book. Thank you also for taking part in my book blog tour – it is so appreciated. Janice xx

Empress DJ says:

April 7, 2019 at 12:36 am

It was my pleasure, Janice. Hit me up for a review anytime!

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1. Shalini says:
  
  April 7, 2019 at 3:29 am
  
  Aww you are such a cutie
  
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