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| Summer at the Little French Guesthouse by Helen Pollard |
My review today is for the third and final book in the
La Cour des Roses series by Helen Pollard; Summer at the Little French Guesthouse.
We find ourselves back in the Loire Valley in France
with Emmy, where alongside running the guesthouse with Rupert, she is
establishing her own business and planning her imminent wedding to Alain.
It was great to be back. I slipped between the pages
easily, loving being back with characters that have become familiar and whose
company I enjoyed like good friends.
Throughout the series Emmy has established herself as
someone dependable, who can be relied on to keep calm in a disaster and
organise everyone into a happy ending. However, this time it’s her happy ending
that is in jeopardy. She finds herself up against her controlling mother, who
has the ability (as some mothers do) to make Emmy feel like a rebellious teen
once again over the finite wedding details. Things are also complicated in
Alain’s family, meaning lots of drama for our usually cool and collected
bride-to-be. There were certainly enough last minute hiccups to raise my heart
rate as I was reading it.
I can honestly say there was nothing I didn’t enjoy
about this book and although books one and two in the series are very good, Helen
has left the best till last. I’m sad to be saying goodbye and can’t help
feeling how lovely it would be to book a holiday there. Meet my friends for
real, take a stroll around the market, listen to the Jazz band and of course
sample one of Rupert’s delicious meals.
I can only hope Helen continues to take us to France in
her future books.
Wherever you are going on your holidays this year, take
one (or all) of these books with you; I can’t recommend them enough.
All three books in La Cour des Roses series are
published by Bookouture and are available in paperback and ebook format from
Amazon, links can be found below.
You might also like to read my France et Moi interviewwith Helen here and my reviews of her other books in the series can be found
below.
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