Book Review: Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks | Julie Valerie

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📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚

BOOK: Peculiar Fate of Holly Banks

AUTHOR: Julie Valerie

@julievalerieauthor

Publisher: #LakeUnionPublishing

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐

Published: November 24, 2020

https://amzn.to/3oi8MKd

The Review

The Title/Cover Draw:

• I really enjoyed the first book and wanted to continue my journey with Holly. I also really liked the simplistic cover.

What I liked:

• The characters continue to be quirky and there is a mystery involved in this book like the first one!

What I didn’t like:

• A little repetitive of Holly’s inner monologue

What kept me reading:

• The characters are really unique and fun. I also wanted to see if Holly fulfills her dream.

The Characters:

• Holly has some fun friends – Colin has a hobby aircraft, Penelope is a realtor who does everything. It’s so nice to continue to get to know these people.

The Ending:

• A little bittersweet and also a little unresolved

Consider if you like:

• Fun quick beach reads.

See my video review here:

Small Summary:

A wife, mother, and aspiring filmmaker clings to the pursuit of perfection only to have fate play with every plan she’s made in this quirky, contemplative, and empowering novel.

Holly Banks is on a desperate mission to have it all, but nothing in life goes according to plan. She’s quickly learning that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, especially when the women of Primm, her new neighborhood, seem to have it together all the time.

With her husband’s job in flux, her daughter’s difficulty with learning to read, and her mother’s new zest for dating, Holly’s life is already anything but picture perfect. Then her dog digs up an old artifact in the village center, and the mishap draws the attention of local media. Because of course it would.

Holly finds herself at the center of a mystery between two rival towns that, if solved, could change the Village of Primm forever. Attention is the last thing she needs as she’s launching a new business, the village-wide “Parade of Homes” is approaching—though she’s hardly unpacked—and she needs to submit her entry for an upcoming film festival. Can Holly still create her perfect (looking) life? Or is fate about to go off script and give her a story she never could have imagined?

*****

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.

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