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What We Do For Love by Anne Pfeffer | Blog Tour 

On By Brianne's Book ReviewsIn Blog Tour, Contemporary, Romance6 Comments

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I am delighted to join the blog tour for What We Do For Love by Anne Pfeffer today! My thanks to Giselle at Xpresso Tours for the chance to join and the wonderful review copy!

What We Do For Love
Anne Pfeffer
Publication date: May 21st 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary

Thirty-eight year old Nicole Adams has given up on finding love. Instead, the single mother focuses on the things she cherishes most—her sixteen-year old son Justin, her friends, and her art.

When she convinces a prominent Los Angeles museum to feature a piece of her work, a large-scale installation, she thinks her life has finally turned a corner.

Then Justin brings a girl, Daniela, home to live with them. Daniela’s angry parents have thrown her out of the house, because she’s pregnant with Justin’s child. Shattered, Nicole takes Daniela in and, in so doing, is drawn into the inner circle of Daniela’s family—a frightening world of deceit and violence.

Nicole struggles to keep life going as normal. Forced to deal with people she doesn’t trust or like, fearful for the future of both her son and the grandchild they’re expecting, Nicole wonders if she can do what she tells Justin to do: always have faith in yourself and do the right thing.

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What We Do for Love won the Chick Lit category of the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and finalist for Best Cover Design/Fiction!

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I Thought…

Once again, I indulged my love for gorgeous front covers when I chose to read What We Do for Love by Anne Pfeffer! I did find, however, that as soon as I started reading this contemporary romance, I was totally and completely hooked.

The author worked miracles with this fascinating plot-line. I was totally absorbed with the story and (nearly) all of the characters.

I really felt Justin’s pain and confusion and it was interesting to read about his feelings and thoughts regarding the situation in which he had got himself.

For me, Anne Pfeffer’s writing skills were admirable as she managed to pack so much into a relatively short book, without ever feeling that the pace was rushed.

I loved the main protagonist, Nicole, and I completely understood many of her misgivings about love. For a woman who was, for most of the time, so level-headed, fair and caring, she also made me want to scream and I did so on several occasions!

I couldn’t possibly finish this without mentioning the ending. It was very fulfilling even though I had partly guessed the outcome.

I highly recommend What We Do For Love and it is a very well deserved five stars from me!

I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel at my own request and this review is my own unbiased opinion.

Brianne’s Book Reviews Rating | Five Stars

Author Bio:

Hi! I grew up in the desert around Phoenix, Arizona, where I had a bay quarter horse named Dolly. If I wasn’t riding, I was holed up somewhere reading Laura Ingalls Wilder or the Oz books or, later on, Jane Eyre and The Grapes of Wrath. Horses eventually faded as an interest, but I ended up with a lifelong love of books and reading.

After college and eight years of living in cold places like Chicago and New York, I escaped back to the land of sunshine. I now live in California, one mile from the Pacific Ocean, with my dachshund Taco. I have worked in banking and as a pro bono attorney, doing adoptions and guardianships for abandoned children.

As a writer, I’d always been interested in children’s books, since they had meant so much to me as a kid. I’ve found I especially like writing books about teens and twenty-somethings, an age where you make so many decisions about who you are and how you want to spend your life.

I love hearing from readers, so please write to me any time at my website http://www.annepfeffer.com.

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Don’t forget the other stops on the tour!

THE TOUR

June 10th
–Sassy Southern Book Blog 
–Embrace the Chaos
–Set a Spell Book Blog
–crazykalm
–Midwest Romantic

June 11th
–Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
–Julius Thompson Writer
–gwendalyn_books_

June 12th
–Reading, Willing & Able
–We Do What We Want Book Reviews & More
–Book Butterfly in Dreamland

June 13th
–Incidental Inspiration 
–The Crafty Engineer’s Bookshelf

June 14th
–Lynn’s Romance Enthusiasm
–Brianne’s Book Reviews

June 15th
–My Life Loves and Passion
–Het leven van een boekenworm
–Once Upon a Page
–Books Direct
–Cranky TBC

Until Next Time, 

A Modern Family by Helga Flatland | Blog Tour 

On By Brianne's Book ReviewsIn Blog Tour, Contemporary, General Fiction1 Comment

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I am delighted to join the blog tour for A Modern Family by Helga Flatland today! My thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for the invitation to join and the wonderful review copy received from Orenda Books!

Book Summary

When Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, arrive in Rome to celebrate their father’s seventieth birthday, a quiet earthquake occurs: their parents have decided to divorce.

Shocked and disbelieving, the siblings try to come to terms with their parents’ decision as it echoes through the homes they have built for themselves, and forces them to reconstruct the shared narrative of their childhood and family history.

A bittersweet novel of regret, relationships and rare psychological insights, A Modern Family encourages us to look at the people closest to us a little more carefully, and ultimately reveals that it’s never too late for change…

Pub date: 21 June 2019 * Paperback * Price: £8.99 * ISBN 978-1-912374-45-8

Click here to buy A Modern Family from Amazon UK now

I Thought…

This book is a beautifully written and very deep exploration into the thoughts and feelings of a family, following the split of a married couple who are divorcing after forty years of marriage.

Like many others, I am currently fascinated by Scandinavian novels and it was a refreshing change to read one that wasn’t crime based.

Helga Flatland’s skills as an author were second to none. A Modern Family was written from the perspectives of three family members, Liv, Ellen and Hakon. These three were the offspring of Sverre and Torill, the aged parents who have had some time to get used to their life-changing decision to split. When they make their announcement to their family, all are shocked.

Liv is the oldest sibling with Ellen as the middle child and the youngest is Hakon. Helga Flatland examines the fallout from the announcement with intelligence and sophistication. The author has an extremely intense writing-style which I found was very befitting to the story.

The complex relationships that exist between siblings, mothers and daughters and fathers and their children were wonderfully and intricately examined and the power of this book was brilliantly executed so that, at times, it took my breath away.

A Modern Family was so incredibly moving and absorbing and for me it is a possible contender for my best books of the year.

I received a complimentary digital copy of this novel, at my own request, from Orenda Books via Random Things Tours. This review is my own unbiased opinion.

Brianne’s Book Reviews Rating | Five Stars

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About The Author

Helga Flatland is already one of Norway’s most awarded and widely read authors. Born in Telemark, Norway, in 1984, she made her literary debut in 2010 with the novel Stay If You Can, Leave If You Must, for which she was awarded the Tarjei Vesaas’ First Book Prize.

She has written four novels and a children’s book and has won several other literary awards. Her fifth novel, A Modern Family, was published to wide acclaim in Norway in August 2017, and was a number-one bestseller. The rights have subsequently been sold across Europe and the novel has sold more than 100,000 copies.


Be sure to check out the rest of the bloggers on the blog tour!

Until Next Time,