Showing posts with label Santorini Sunsets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santorini Sunsets. Show all posts

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Book Spotlight Giveaway! Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes


I have sooooo many books! The Book Spotlight Giveaway feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. This feature is a way for my to cull my collection and to give someone else the opportunity to enjoy these treasures.

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Santorini Sunsets

Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes
ARC, 304 pages
Published August 2nd 2016 by St. Martin's Griffin

The seventh intoxicating love story by Anita Hughes, set in beautiful Santorini, Greece. When a Hollywood superstar and a NYC society girl fall in love, sparks fly and secrets are revealed.

Brigit Palmer is thrilled to be on the Greek Island of Santorini. She's here for her wedding to Hollywood heart-throb Blake Crawford, one of America's most eligible bachelors. Brigit's parents have rented a villa, and soon guests will arrive from all over the world for the intimate ceremony.

Brigit is a New York socialite, and she's just given up her position at a Manhattan law firm to run her father's philanthropic foundation. Things are finally falling into place. Love, career, family. Everything is going so well...until she steps into the garden and sees her ex-husband Nathaniel hiding in the rose bushes.

Nathaniel, a failed novelist, announces that Blake sold the rights to the wedding to HELLO! Magazine for two million dollars (donated to charity), and he is the reporter assigned to write the story. Everyone expects Brigit to have her happily ever after, including her mother who taught her how to lead the perfect lifestyle, her younger sister Daisy who impatiently wishes for her own love story, and of course, her fiancé. Things are supposed to work out for them. But when Brigit discovers an unsettling secret about Blake, she questions everything she's ever believed about love, and wonders if she's better off alone.

Told in Anita Hughes' spectacularly descriptive prose, Santorini Sunsets is a story about family bonds, first loves, and the question of when to let go and when to hang on as tight as you can.

    

I read Santorini Sunsets when it came out in 2016 and loved my trip to Santorini. You can read my thoughts here

About the author

Anita Hughes

Anita Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia and had a charmed childhood that included petting koala bears, riding the waves on Bondi Beach, and putting an occasional shrimp on the barbie. Her writing career began at the age of eight, when she won a national writing contest in The Australian newspaper, and was named "One of Australia's Next Best Writers." (She still has the newspaper clipping.)

She received a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing from Bard College, and attended UC Berkeley's Masters in Creative Writing program.

Her debut novel Monarch Beach was released in June 2012, followed by Market Street and Lake Como in 2013. French Coast and Rome in Love were released in 2015.

Island in the Sea was released in April 2016 and Santorini Sunsets will be released in August 2016.

She lives in Dana Point, CA with her family, where she interrupts her writing to watch the glorious sunsets.

Connect with Anita

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads


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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes ~ My Thoughts

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Santorini Sunsets

Santorini Sunsets by Anita Hughes
Paperback and e-book, 304 pages
Expected publication: August 2nd 2016 by St. Martin's Griffin

The seventh intoxicating love story by Anita Hughes, set in beautiful Santorini, Greece. When a Hollywood superstar and a NYC society girl fall in love, sparks fly and secrets are revealed.

Brigit Palmer is thrilled to be on the Greek Island of Santorini. She's here for her wedding to Hollywood heart-throb Blake Crawford, one of America's most eligible bachelors. Brigit's parents have rented a villa, and soon guests will arrive from all over the world for the intimate ceremony.

Brigit is a New York socialite, and she's just given up her position at a Manhattan law firm to run her father's philanthropic foundation. Things are finally falling into place. Love, career, family. Everything is going so well...until she steps into the garden and sees her ex-husband Nathaniel hiding in the rose bushes.

Nathaniel, a failed novelist, announces that Blake sold the rights to the wedding to HELLO! Magazine for two million dollars (donated to charity), and he is the reporter assigned to write the story. Everyone expects Brigit to have her happily ever after, including her mother who taught her how to lead the perfect lifestyle, her younger sister Daisy who impatiently wishes for her own love story, and of course, her fiancé. Things are supposed to work out for them. But when Brigit discovers an unsettling secret about Blake, she questions everything she's ever believed about love, and wonders if she's better off alone.

Told in Anita Hughes' spectacularly descriptive prose, Santorini Sunsets is a story about family bonds, first loves, and the question of when to let go and when to hang on as tight as you can.

My thoughts about Santorini Sunsets ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)

First line—'Brigit walked down the circular staircase and glanced around the living room of the villa. Every surfacethe antique grand piano, the mahogany coffee table, even the pastel-colored love seatswas covered with wedding presents.'

Brigit is sure that she knows what she wants. And then she discovers that people are not what they first appeared to be. She just wants to be happy and loved but did she throw her one chance at true happiness and love away all those years ago? Can she find it again with Blake? Or is he the problem?

I loved my little trip to Santorini and I enjoyed living the high life with Brigit and her fiancé, Blake, even if it was only in my head. Santorini Sunsets is the first Anita Hughes book that I have read and I enjoyed her writing style and her descriptive passages. I really felt like I was there in the Greek Islands with the family and the wedding party. Such a beautiful story in so many ways!

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion. 


About the author

Anita Hughes

Anita Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia and had a charmed childhood that included petting koala bears, riding the waves on Bondi Beach, and putting an occasional shrimp on the barbie. Her writing career began at the age of eight, when she won a national writing contest in The Australian newspaper, and was named "One of Australia's Next Best Writers." (She still has the newspaper clipping.)

She received a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing from Bard College, and attended UC Berkeley's Masters in Creative Writing program.

Her debut novel Monarch Beach was released in June 2012, followed by Market Street and Lake Como in 2013. French Coast and Rome in Love were released in 2015.

Island in the Sea was released in April 2016 and Santorini Sunsets will be released in August 2016.

She lives in Dana Point, CA with her family, where she interrupts her writing to watch the glorious sunsets.

Connect with Anita



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Monday, June 27, 2016

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 27, 2016


It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Not a very exciting week, this past week. The weekend was busy with grandkids, which is always wonderful. At work, a woman retired last week after working in our library for 35 years. That is just amazing to me, 35 years at the same job. She is a reader so I am sure she is looking forward to more reading time. I know I would be! Not sure what our plans are for the upcoming 4th of July/3 day weekend but I am sure it will be busy. Happy reading everyone! 

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What I'm currently reading/listening to

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Crushed (The Heart of Napa #1)
by Deborah Coonts
I loved Deborah's Lucky series and I'm excited to be reading her new one.

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Look Again
by Lisa Scottoline
(audiobook)
I think she is going to be added to my 'must-read' author list.

What I recently finished

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Lowcountry Stranger (Sweeney Sisters #2)
by Ashley Farley
Loved this! My thoughts will be posted on Friday.

Santorini Sunsets
Santorini Sunsets
by Anita Hughes 
Another new author to add to my 'must-read' list! My thoughts will be posted later this week.

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Things We Once Held Dear
by Ann Tatlock
An okay read and book discussion at book group.

What I am going to read next

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Falling
by Jane Green

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?


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Monday, June 20, 2016

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 20, 2016


It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Another crazy, busy week this week so I didn't get much reading time in. Spent some time with a dear friend who has cancer. I hate cancer! It's been a long nine years for her, full of both good times and bad times. I am happy that I can be around to give her some support.  Other than that, we celebrated Father's Day and our oldest daughter's birthday yesterday and we will celebrate our youngest grandson's second birthday today. Where does the time go? Like I said, crazy, busy times but I love it!! Have a great week and happy reading! 

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What I'm currently reading/listening to

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Things We Once Held Dear
by Ann Tatlock
Book club meets this week to discuss. It was an okay read.

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Look Again
by Lisa Scottoline
(audiobook)
I need more car time to listen!

What I recently finished

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Finding Libbie: A Novel
by Deanna Lynn Sletten
Another great story by this author!

What I am going to read next

Santorini Sunsets
Santorini Sunsets
by Anita Hughes 
Another new-to-me author. Looks good.

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?


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