Saturday 7 April 2018

New Release Review | The Birthday List by Devney Perry | #NEW #Contemporary #SecondChance #Review

 Title: The Birthday List
Author: Devney Perry
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 3 April 2018

Blurb

Happily married to her college sweetheart, Poppy lived a blessed life with the husband of her dreams. Then everything changed. She is no longer a wife. She is no longer the envy of her single friends. Now, people look at her with pity as they whisper a single word behind her back.

Widow.

Years after her husband’s tragic death, years of pain and sorrow and wishing for the life she’ll never get back, Poppy decides to finish Jamie’s birthday list. She’ll do the things he wanted to most. Because maybe, just maybe, if she can complete his list, she can start to live again.

Poppy expects going through the birthday list will be hard. She expects it to hurt. But what she doesn’t expect is Cole. Could the man who delivered the news of her husband’s death and shattered her heart be the one to help her put it back together again?

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 Review

The Birthday List is a standalone romance story of loss and renewal and touches the heart from the start.

Poppy had been through a devastating loss with the death of her husband in tragic circumstance and even five years later she was still not over him or able to move on. Little by little though she had started to make some chances and changes to her life and one was opening up her own restaurant. Then she started to honour Jamie’s life by completing his birthday list he had created to do crazy and wonderful things on his birthday. On one of her first tasks from the list she meets Cole.

Cole was the young police officer who had been the one to tell Poppy of her husband’s death and he had never forgotten her. Seeing her again had him reeling and even more so when she turned up at the police station a few days later and he found out the murder was still an ongoing cold case. Cole and Poppy become acquaintances and he offers to help her complete the birthday list. Through the pair become closer and things start to change in both their lives.

This was an emotional and heart wrenching read that slowly unravels with Poppy learning to let go and move on with her life. The relationship was an expected slow burn but once they are dating then things got steamy and gasp worthy. These two were so sweet but hot together!

I really liked this book and it kept me engaged and enthralled throughout. I could relate to both characters and I instantly loved them both from the start. The secondary family characters were an added attraction to the storyline (especially Randall and Jimmy) but I wished for more for Finn.

Overall a heart-warming and emotional read with plenty of heat, romance and new beginnings. Four stars. 


 Excerpt

Turning to the door, I smiled, ready to greet my late-evening customer, but faltered as the door closed behind him.

Cole Goodman was walking my way.

My belly dipped as I took him in. His aviator sunglasses were perched on top of his chocolate-brown hair. A black polo stretched across his broad shoulders and pulled tight across his muscled arms. His pale-blue jeans molded to his Herculean thighs before draping down to his black, square-toed boots. The leather belt on Cole’s trim waist held both a shining badge and a holstered gun.

Cole smiled and locked his light-green eyes on mine as he crossed the room.

His straight, white teeth made my breath hitch—something that had happened last night more times than I wanted to admit.

Molly, who had turned around from her seat to greet our customer, spun around so her back was to Cole. Her cheeks flushed as she whispered, “Wow.”

Wow was right.

Cole Goodman was—simply put—gorgeous.

He could give a woman a speeding ticket and get a thank-you in return. He inspired women to attempt push-ups in a karate class just for the chance to watch him sweat through his gi. Cole made grown women blush like teenagers and giggle in corners, like those girls at the dojo last night.

Meet The Author


Devney is the USA Today bestselling author of the Jamison Valley series. She lives in Montana with her husband and two children. After working in the technology industry for nearly a decade, she abandoned conference calls and project schedules to enjoy a slower pace at home with her kids. She loves reading and, after consuming hundreds of books, decided to share her own stories. Devney loves hearing from readers! Connect with her on social media.

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