My Greek Island Summer
by Mandy Baggot
B&N / GP / Kobo
Two weeks. One unforgettable trip to Corfu. A chance to change her life.
Becky Rose has just landed her dream job house-sitting at a top-end villa on the island of Corfu. What could be better than two weeks laying by an infinity pool overlooking the gorgeous Ionian waters while mending her broken heart.
Elias Mardas is traveling back to Corfu on business whilst dealing with his own personal demons. Late arriving in Athens, Becky and Elias have to spend a night in the Greek capital. When they have to emergency land in Kefalonia, Becky’s got to decide whether to suck up the adventure and this gorgeous companion she seems to have been thrown together with or panic about when she’s going to arrive at Corfu…
Finally reaching the beautiful island, Becky is happy to put Elias behind her and get on with her adventure. Until he turns up at the villa…
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
He could imagine the raised eyes in the village… the not-so-whispered gossip of the village’s president like a rally bullhorn. Greek men didn’t get left like that. Greek men absolutely never got left for a woman… if it didn’t happen in mythology it didn’t exist.
Are you a prostitute? You know, not one of those ones who stand on street corners wearing clothes that look like the 1980s threw up all over them. I mean one of the ones who suck off politicians and pop stars in classy hotels… Oh my God! I guessed it right, didn’t I?! Well, you’re a dark horse. I didn’t really have you pegged for that when you said you hadn’t ever had sex in a plane toilet.
‘The army?’ Petra said, screwing up her face as if ‘the army’ was gone-off chicken no longer fit for human consumption. ‘To be honest the sex trade was more believable. What are you? A captain or something? Sitting behind a desk all day planning assaults?’
Only me. My mother will tell you that as I was ten pounds in weight and it felt like she was evacuating a watermelon. There was no way she was going to repeat the experience… You laugh at me? Being a child on my own growing up. No one to play with because my head was too large?… You are now thinking of me with a watermelon for a head, are you not?
My Review:
At five-hundred-twenty-eight pages, this slowly developing story was cleverly interwoven with humorous yet emotive subplots and secondary story threads that provided vibrant strokes of color and a great deal of texture to the uniquely quirky and oddly captivating characters. I was pleasantly surprised how all the sneakily placed little tidbits skillfully merged together at the end for my highly prized HEA. I smirked, giggle-snorted, and gasped my way through this gastronomical delight, which teased and taunted my various appetites and was rather destructive to my dieting efforts – but any excuse will do 😉
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sign me up for that job!
No no no… How can it have 500+ pages. I think I am in this tour and I haven’t read it. Yikes. Now I don’t want to read it even though you amde it sound enticing. But 500 pages. I don’t have that kind of concentration anymore. I quit
The US page said 528 but the UK page said 380. I noticed that happens a lot and don’t know how it is determined. But I enjoy her writing, she is wryly comedic.
Sighhh…. 😂 380 is 100 pages too long DJ…. I don’t wanna read… I will hop skip and jump unless the book forces me to walk slowly
This seems like a long but rewarding read!
I am loving the sound of this one.
Amazing review my friend, I am really glad you fully enjoyed reading this book and it really looks and sounds like an fantastic and very fun book. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome post and for putting this book on my radar.
Sounds like a really good book.
Great review. I’m glad that it all came together as it worked out in such a good way. I read several over five hundred page books this month.