Monday, 4 November 2013
Safkhet Soul Tour 4th
– 8th November 2013
Come and join the fun!
Blog tour dates
4th
November – Suzie Tullet joins Donna at http://donnasroomforreading.blogspot.co.uk/
4th
November - Carol E Wyer joins JB at http://brookcottagebooks.blogspot.co.uk/
5th
November – Suzie Tullett joins Josie at http://jaffareadstoo.blogspot.co.uk/
5th
November – Carol E Wyer joins Sharon at http://jerasjamboree.com/
5th
November – Carol E Wyer joins Jane at http://booketta.blogspot.co.uk/
6th
November – Sheryl Browne joins Lisa at http://bookaddictedhousewife.blogspot.co.uk/
7th
November – Lin Treadgold joins Lisa at http://bookalicious-traveladdict.blogspot.co.uk/
7th
November Suzie Tullett joins Laura at http://lauraslittlebookblog.blogspot.co.uk/
Brook Cottage Books and Safkhet
Publishing present
Carol E Wyer, Author of Just Add Spice
Carol E Wyer has written award-winning
novels, articles and books that poke fun at getting older. Known for her
light-hearted take on life, Carol now also tours, giving talks on 'Irritable
Male Syndrome' and how to age disgracefully
1.
If
you could invite anybody for dinner, who would it be and what would you cook?
Cook? Did
you say cook? I should confess at this point that I can’t cook. I can burn and
I can produce bland meals. Best I go to M&S for the meal. Who would I
invite? Sheryl Browne. I think she’d be a damn good laugh.
2. If
you could spend the rest of your life with a fictional character, who would it
be and why?
Lassie.
I adore dogs.
3. Your
desert island 5 books ?
A La Recherché Du Temps Perdu by Proust. Not because I am pretentious but because I speed read and at least that would keep me occupied for a long time, especially if it is in the original French.
A French/English dictionary. (For above book and to keep me amused.
A La Recherché Du Temps Perdu by Proust. Not because I am pretentious but because I speed read and at least that would keep me occupied for a long time, especially if it is in the original French.
A French/English dictionary. (For above book and to keep me amused.
Anything by Agatha Christie because I
love murder mysteries.
Gone with the Wind because it was a book my mother made me read when I was young and I loved it.
Winnie the Pooh. It reminds me not to be too serious and to value my friends. (Who doesn't love Eeyore?)
Just Add Spice is available now
MY REVIEW
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!
You can find out more about Carol E
Wyer here
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Fab review, Jonty. The book sounds great fun. x
Thank you for taking part JB.
carol
I'll supply the wine, Carol. French, in keeping with the tone. And a waiter to pour ... French, also, I think. Oooooh, oui! :) xx
HAHA now I've got visions of Bridget Jones' style blue-string soup and burnt marmalade orange for dinner. I'll bring a casserole when I come to your house and you do the jokes, Carol, because you're brilliant! Rock on, great post, love the tour!
Great give-away! Pleased to be a host on the tour too :)
I am so sorry to be late to this...have internet difficulties! Thank you for such a brilliant review JB and "Bonjour" to all you wonderful peeps who have passed by. (Merde I 'ate it when zee internet messes about.)
Loving the tour. :)