The Loch Lannick series Hannah Ellis
This month it's not a book that I'm going to present you but a whole series. As we are entering March, we can feel the dawn of Spring, this new season which promises us rebirth and renewal; and I don't know about you but I feel in need of something bright, light and colorful. As you must have guessed by now, I'm taking you with me in a "feel good" series with which I fell in love at a time when I really needed that positive feeling!
If you are like Frederic Beigbeder, you might want to skip that review (he indeed declared that people admiring "feel-good books", were uneducated people who'd better study the history of literature...) or you might want to give it a try if like me, you've always heard that only stupid people didn't change their minds; andmaybe you'll agree with author Megane Crane : "Well, everyone likes to feel superior to someone else. Everyone is a snob about something. So there's that."
I heard some of you say that the covers look a little simplistic...come on you know we can't a judge a book by its cover...literally!
Last but not least on the topic, I must say that I too had begun some "feel good" novels by popular authors before closing them down because I found them too cheesy, but stay with me, I promise what I'm about to present is not!
If you are still with me, that's perfect; I'm taking you in Scotland, not much in big cities like Edinburgh or Glasgow (though you will still see some of it) but on the isle of Skye in a quaint village by a gorgeous loch.
Hannah Ellis will make us a member of the Mackenzie family from the beginning and the attachment to its members is such that you won't be able to stop reading. Though the story is told from a third person point of view, each book takes the perspective of one of the three sisters (Leana, Isla, Elspeth) or of their best friend (Lexie) and as we follow the highs and lows of their different paths, we will see how they manage to navigate through troubled waters. Not only will you follow their lives, their dreams and secret thoughts, but you will also spend lovely evenings in the village pub or around the Mackenzie's table after having strolled around gorgeous landscapes.
The stories are sweet and sparkling, the characters aren't flat and I really appreciated the different points of view that show us that there is sometimes more than meets the eyes. To finish, I will just say that's the kind of book you can't close once you've started it and that you definitively miss the character as soon as you've finished!
Written by Virginie
Have you read this book ? What did you think of it ?