Prompt – A book with a pink cover.
Medium – Book
About the Book – Violet is left an apartment and a pier in her recently deceased grandfather’s will, in a place called ‘Swallow Beach’ on the coast somewhere near Brighton. She arrives in Swallow Beach and is immediately entranced by not only the pier, but also her neighbour, the extremely handsome Cal. She decides to make a go of the pier as a business, and ends up deciding to set it up as an ‘adult’ (read sexy-times) themed pier. However, not everyone in the community is thrilled by this idea, and there are rumours that the pier is cursed…
My Rating – 7/10. I am not usually a chick-lit kind of person. I generally find the characters unbelievable, the plots contrived and the female characters either a bit soft or a bit too good to be true. As you can probably tell from my list of books I’ve read so far, I like non-fiction, history and fantasy as my go-to books for a good read. As such, I’m not used to books I can get through so quickly! I liked the fact that with this book, it was an easy read. It was the sort of book I could pick up and put down between clients, without needing to think back about what happened and where all the characters were.
There are plenty of things to find a little ‘interesting’ in this book – the love interest’s name (Calvin Dearheart, anyone?), the whole idea of setting up a ‘sex pier’, the whole plot point of a young girl inheriting a beautiful apartment and pier, the coincidence that this small village could hold a whole swathe of people working in the adult entertainment business. Despite this, however, I actually quite enjoyed myself while reading. Being completely different to the other books I tend to read, I didn’t have any preconceptions and I enjoyed the mix of characters and the humour of the writing. This kind of book is exactly why the reading challenge is great – I have read a book I wouldn’t usually read, which brought some joy and some laughter.
Would I read it again? Probably not, it is currently on the charity shop pile. But, I won’t be so snotty about picking up and reading these types of books again (and I’m kind of curious to see if there is a sequel…)
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