Today it is my pleasure to help kick off the blog tour for It Started With a Book by Camilla Isley.
Lose yourself in Lakeville Hills in this gorgeous new romance from bestselling author Camilla Isley…
When she’s ghosted by yet another Tinder match, Leighton swears off dating for life. Who needs apps and blind dates when she has the perfect-in-every-way (apart from being fictional) heroes of her beloved romance novels?
That night Leigh finds a second-hand book on her TBR pile, which transports her to the small-town of Lakeville Hills, where the heroines wear shorty-shorts and the men drink bourbon. And as Leigh drifts off to sleep, she dreams of billionaire cowboy Killian St Clair, who could win a gold medal for smouldering and bicep flexing.
For a while, Leigh finds it easier to stomach misogynistic supervisors, newly coupled friends, and extravagant bridesmaid duties knowing she can return to Lakeville Hills each evening. Until one day, she wakes up to find she’s brought a bit of Lakeville Hills back with her: the impossible sexy and entirely implausible Killian St Clair is in her apartment.
Now Leigh must help Killian navigate the real world. But as she gets to know the man behind the trope, can she keep her heart safe, or does she risk falling in love with her book boyfriend in real life?
I think we can safely say that I love Camilla Isley’s novels and so I am always keen to get my hands on a copy of her latest offering at the earliest opportunity, and it was no exception with It Started With a Book! I think we can all look back on a time when we’ve read a book, and the leading man is just so perfect that we wish he was real – well Camilla Isley agreed and has brought us the story we never knew we needed!
Leighton is embroiled in the often tedious world of online dating – after yet another disastrous match, she decides to go it alone, swearing off dating even though she is surrounded by friends in love. When she comes across a second-hand book on her bookshelf that she’s sure she didn’t buy, she decides to immerse herself in the fictional world of Lakeville Hills. With Lakeville Hills and the very sexy, very wealthy cowboy Killian St Clair dominating her dreams, the escapism she experiences makes her real life just a little more bearable. Until she finds her dreams becoming a reality!
With Killian St Clair now inexplicably very much a part of her real world, Leighton finds herself falling for a man who just cannot be real – can he?!
This is a novel that is very much relatable to those bookworms amongst us that have spent our evenings dreaming about the men we meet in the fictional worlds created for us by some amazing authors. How often have we wanted to open our eyes and find him there, right in front of us, exactly as we had imagined? Well Camilla Isley has shown us how that would play out if it really happened! It’s not without its trials and tribulations, along with some practical issues surrounding a man just appearing out of nowhere, but I loved following Leighton’s uncertainty about whether he was real or if he would stay, and the acceptance that maybe this fictional man could be the man for her.
This is a lovely novel full of great characters. It is pure escapism, and sometimes that is exactly what we need. So I am very happy to recommend this to you, on this very wet, less than summery day! The weekend is almost upon us, so grab a copy of this book, a glass of wine and immerse yourself in a story that we all sometimes wish would come true!
Thank you to Camilla Isley, Boldwood Books and Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour and providing me with a copy of this book, in exchange for my honest review.
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Author Bio
Camilla is an engineer who left science behind to enter the whimsical realm of romantic fiction.
She writes contemporary rom-coms. Her characters have big hearts, might be a little stubborn at times, and love to banter with each other. Every story she pens has a guaranteed HEA that will make your heart beat faster. Unless you’re a vampire, of course.
Camilla is a cat lover, coffee addict, and shoe hoarder. Besides writing, she loves reading—duh!—cooking, watching bad TV, and going to the movies—popcorn, please. She’s a bit of a foodie, nothing too serious. A keen traveler, Camilla knows mosquitoes play a role in the ecosystem, and she doesn’t want to starve all those frog princes out there, but she could really live without them.
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