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Uncork My Love uncorked bottle of happiness and love. Uncork My Love was charming and entertaining romcom that revolved around Ivy and Ted, two very competitive owners of winery slowly finding their way to love. It was about presumptions, not judging person for one bad past experience, not letting past affect your present, friendship, love, family, and Winemaking through love. Writing was fabulous, engaging, entertaining and fast paced. It was written in first person narrative from alternative perspective of Ted and Ivy. The setting of Napa Valley and descriptions of Ivy’s Half Moon Vineyard made this banter filled romance even more romantic and lovely. Plot was great with dislike-to-love trope which was done amazingly. All characters were fabulous. They were developed, realistic and relatable. This book had loveliest secondary characters – Grandpa Howard with his banjo, Ivy’s sister Mindy, and my most favourite meddling grandmas. Ted was brilliant, cute, charming, caring, and fun character. I loved his helpful, honest and straightforward, no-filter nature. It made Ivy mad but to readers love him more and more. I liked how he didn’t force Ivy to accept his help and tried to do things without expecting anything in return. The way he made list where she was doing wrong and how she could work on getting sales up was amazing. I can’t believe it took Ivy so long to trust him. What I loved most about him was, he too had past that hurt him and broke him but he didn’t let it define his life and achieved so much by hard work and passion. Ivy was winezilla. (I’m still giggling remembering how Ted came up with that word) She was stubborn, headstrong, and judgemental because of her trust issues. But once she met Ted, presumptions she built about him or about anyone who offered to help started to crumble. We see her soft, caring, compassionate, and fun side. I loved her for accepting her mistakes and seeking forgiveness for it. What I loved most was banter between characters. Author truly is King of Banter. It started from the very first chapter and was non-stop till the end. Conversations and dialogues were flawless. There were so many hilarious moments– that scene with Michelle Raquel, secret chat, Aphrodisiac food, and that prewedding counsellor! It was so refreshing. I don’t remember which last book made me laugh so much. I also enjoyed Winery tour, wine making process, local wine festival and the annual wine competition. Overall, Uncork My Love was hilarious, entertaining and flawlessly written romcom with lovely characters and lots of banter. I highly recommend this to fans of romcom, frenemies-to-lovers trope, and prefer to have lots of banter in their romcom. Read full review by following this link- Uncork My Love by Rich Amooi (Review) / / hilarious banter filled romantic comedy - Books Teacup and Reviews (booksteacupnreviews.com)

Uncork My Love

recommended a book almost 4 years ago

almost 4 years ago

Unwritten was fantastic YA dark fantasy, a perfect opening book in The Zweeshen Chronicles that revolved around Beatrix Alba trying solve the riddle her mother left behind and find a place she belonged. It was about belongingness, abandonment issue, courage, believing in yourself, gift, power, secrets, betrayal, friendship, and love. Writing was mesmerising and descriptive. Author didn’t rush into things whether it was characters and their development, plot or the world and long chapters made it steady paced. It was written in third person narrative from Beatrix’s POV. Plot was much more complex than I expected. It was interesting to find out what her mother’s letter was about, what it was going to reveal at the end, what she would discover about herself and her mother, why villain wanted to kill her, could she save herself and the world from villain’s sinister plan, and what awaits at the end of the journey. All characters were flawed and realistic. I rooted for Beatrix from the beginning. She was brave, courageous, determined, stubborn and unrelenting but she was reckless, lacked self-confidence, and believed her gift was curse, a monster, and feared in wielding it. I loved how as story progressed, she learned so many things about herself, her power, and how she started considering it as gift than a curse and learned to wield it, control it and learned to believe in herself, accept all help she could get and appreciated it. World was absolutely brilliant. It was intricate, dark, gloomy and filled with magic. I enjoyed reading about bibloworld, Zweeshan and its rules, why they named earth “Pangea”, how the world worked, how characters of stories lived, how one could travel between stories or realms, about pageturners, librarian, council of different guilds (genres) and its politics, wordrider, rebels, forbidden territory, myths, legends, Goddess and her power, technology… Everything was mind-blowing. Even after reading so much about this unique world, I have a feeling there is still so much to know and discover. I made mistake trying to know everything in the beginning. This world was revealed itself as the story progressed so I advise just go with the flow than thinking so hard about it. All twist and turns were well written. I couldn’t guess the next step, how characters were going to decode next clue of the riddle or what was going to happen next. Climax was surprising. I couldn’t have guessed the real face of the villain. Everything from Climax to end was interesting and adrenaline filled. It gave some answers and yet left some questions unanswered that I hope to discover in next books. End was happy and sad both at the same time with a minor cliff hanger. Overall, Unwritten was beautiful, dark, intricate, steady paced and well written YA fantasy. I recommend this book to fantasy readers who prefer to have detailed world without info dump and like to take their time in the immersive world. Read full review by following this link- Unwritten (The Zweeshen Chronicles #1) by Alicia J. Novo (#BookReview) // A beautiful, dark, intricate YA fantasy - Books Teacup and Reviews (booksteacupnreviews.com)

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Books whisper to Beatrix Alba. But they aren’t the reason she has never fit in. Bullied at home and ...

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