Thursday 29 September 2016

Review for A Virtual Affair by Tracie Podger: ★★★★★

A Virtual AffairA Virtual Affair by Tracie Podger

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


::..Reviewed for Red's Midnight Readers..::

I was given an ARC of this in exchange for an honest review. My actual rating is 3.5 stars.

Now my rating is purely based on this novel alone as Tracie stories are normally a straight up 5 stars for me but for some reason I just couldn't relate to this story.

Jayne is in her forties and living a miserable life with a husband who has no time for her but plenty of time for extra marital affairs, that Jayne just puts up with. After a holiday away with her best friend she finds herself besotted with a lovely stranger "Stephen". Keeping in contact with him through emails Jayne starts to see what she has been missing by sticking with her loveless marriage. However fate has nasty surprise in store and her world crumbles over night, leaving her to rebuild her life from rock bottom.

Unfortunately I found Jayne was a weak, whiny character and the amount of cups of tea that were made were unnecessary. I just couldn't warm to her and it wasn't until I was 65% in to it that it started to get interesting and Jayne, after hitting rock bottom came into her own. My heart broke for her and I will admit that I did shed a few tears for her. It's apparent how much of Tracie's soul went in to this novel but it wasn't for me.

Now don't let this put you off, this book is plenty life-like that lots of readers would be able to relate to this story, so why not give it a go?


Blurb
Do you know what hope smells like?
It’s a combination of the sea, of exposed seaweed and salty air.
Of wet sand on a winter’s day.

Jayne was mid-forties when she experienced the worst and the best times of her life.
She fell in love, so desperately in love.
She lost everything overnight.

But no matter how bad life gets, how far down that dark tunnel you are, there is always a glimmer of hope.

From her dream house in Kent, via the nuthouse, and eventually to a cottage in Cornwall, Jayne takes a journey that is to wound, to destroy, and eventually heal her.


This is a story of one woman’s quest to find herself, and to love herself again.

Contemporary Romance for readers over the age of 18.



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