Thursday, 25 July 2013
Dawn
Ellis is bored out of her tiny mind. She's come to the conclusion that husband
Jim is a boring old fart and more so since his retirement. Dawn feels like she
needs to inject a little bit of excitement into their marriage and their sex
life. Jim has forgotten the essential ingredients to keeping a woman happy –
passion and desire and overall a bit more oomph!
Dawn
finds escape from the mundane life she leads through joining a writing group
starting to write a book. The heroine in the book is Cinnamon Knight. Cinnamon
is the polar opposite of Dawn. She is super sexy, confident and not afraid to
kick ass if needed. After getting her heart broken, Cinnamon has turned herself
into ‘an avenging angel’, righting the wrongs done to women by men! Cinnamon is
everything Dawn is not and Dawn lives her life through Cinnamon. However, soon
Cinnamon is not content with being merely the character in Dawn’s book. She
becomes Dawns confidant and her advisor. Throughout Dawn’s daily life and her attempts
to spice up her love life with Jim, Cinnamon is there trying to steer Dawn in
the right direction. However, it doesn’t always work out and soon the lines
between fiction and reality become blurred.
Just
Add Spice is the type of book that I think everyone will relate to. It’s a book
about wanting and actually needing change.
It examines how a person’s needs within a marriage can differ somewhat
from what their partner thinks they want. I adored the story within a story.
This book is very cleverly written and some of the great one-liners and scenes
within the book had me laughing out loud. Put it like this, you’ll never look
at a lolly the same way again! I was very drawn to both characters and if I'm honest, I loved Cinnamon because I've been known to exact a bit of revenge myself...........but that's a whole other story!
Just
Add Spice explores the journey that a lot of people find themselves on – that of
making some major life changes and deciding that the comfortable life that is
oh so easy to fall into, isn’t necessarily the one that satisfies us the most.
Whilst Cinnamon is the ‘heroine’ of Dawn’s story, little does Dawn realise that
she is actually the heroine of her own story and thus the heroine of the
reader. However, change does come at a price as Dawn soon discovers. I think if we were all totally
honest with ourselves we’d admit to all wanting to be a bit more like Cinnamon
Knight, or Dawn, or Cinnamon or……………………..
Just
Add Spice is a very enjoyable read that gets across a serious message about
love, loss and desire in a humorous and imaginative way. And yes, it’s just a
little bit spicy in places and I adored it! Well done to Carol E Wyer whose
wonderful writing kept me up late into the night desperate to follow Dawn and
Cinnamon’s exploits. A highly recommended read!
As
part of the Just Add Spice tour there are lots of fab prizes to be won. Click
on the rafflecopter link to enter. You can also join in the fun at the Launch
Party HERE
Extract
Cinnamon
Knight ground the stub of her Benson and Hedges’ cigarette into the pavement
with the heel of her Prada leather motorcycle boot, where it now joined a small
pile of tab ends. Strategically placed in a shop doorway, she watched the top
left window of a block of flats opposite. She had been there almost two hours.
Rain beat steadily on the pavement, drumming against the gutter with constant
thuds, but this did not deter her. Her patience was rewarded as the light
blazing from the window was finally extinguished. She sauntered across the road
to the BMW parked in front of the block of flats along the kerbside, sandwiched
between a Peugeot 205 and a C Class Mercedes.
Dressed
completely in black, face partially obscured by her North Face hooded jacket;
she was almost invisible next to the dark car. It took only a minute to fiddle
with the lock, open the door, and slide into the car. She lowered herself down
in the driver’s seat, casting a cursory glance out of the window. The streets
were empty. The weather was on her side and no one was braving the downpour,
not even the old man at the end of the road who rarely missed taking his dog
out for an evening stroll.
She leant
forward and pulled off the cover below the steering wheel with one deft
movement. Extracting the screwdriver from a neat case, she stabbed it into the
ignition lock. A quick fiddle, one sharp twist, and the car burst into life;
the persistent thudding of the rain against the pavement hid the initial
coughing of the engine. She pulled away from the kerb swiftly and headed up the
road at speed.
Pushing the hood away from her head, she checked her face in the rear-view mirror. That'll teach him to mess about with women, she thought. No one, but no one, messes about with Cinnamon - the rat!
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Just
Add Spice Blog Tour - 25th July
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Ah yes, the infamous lolly episode! It made me cringe when I wrote it ;)
Thank you for not only being part of this blitz tour but this fantastic review. I am filling up again. You have no idea how much a review like this warms me to my very core! (Or, it's my age!) Thank you so much JB. XXX
Haw, haw, no it's not your age, Carol. Fab review, JB! Fab book. Oh, the lolly scene... Picture the wife's face! Loved it. And, yes, I've been known to exact a little revenge, too. Male or female, who doesn't sometimes want to? :) xx
Great post - I've enjoyed reading all the fab reviews for Just Add Spice :)