Lynn's Romance Enthusiasm: Sapphire Star Publishing

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Sophie's Turn by Nicky Wells

Book 1, Rock Star Romance

Sapphire Star Publishing LLC

ISBN: 97819

Published: August 08, 2012 (paperback)/September 4, 2012 (e-book)

424 pages (paperback)/580KB

Rating: 4 ½ stars

This story is written in the first person.

Sophie Penhalligan gets a marriage proposal while on a carousel. But Sophie has a problem, she is already engaged. But this is the Prologue and we need to go back in time.

Sophie is on her way to a date with Tim Renfrew. Because she’s in England, Sophie’s traveling on the Tube. I would love to add this to my bucket list – be an observer and watch the other passengers as we travel on the Tube route.

Nicky reminds us how different men and women are when it comes to remembering dates. I also can’t figure out what Sophie sees in Tim – well they do say that love is blind. The more I read the more I mentally yell at her to “dump him, dump him”. He reminds me a little bit of my older brother – clueless. Sophie also lets us know who her favorite band is – Tuscq.

Sophie is like a lot of young women, and girls, she has a thing for the lead singer of the group. If you like to listen to music as you read, you may want to put on some of your favorite music. Me – I would love to listen to some Michael Buble.

Rachel is the perfect friend for Sophie. I can picture her with these little horns that poke through every once-in-a-while. She’s also a great person to have around when Sophie needs to bend someone’s ear. Rachel also has me laughing every so often. When I go traveling, it would be great to have someone like her along for the trip.

I love how Nicky puts temptation in Sophie’s way – like the apple was tempting to Eve, Dan is tempting to Sophie. He knows how to go after what he wants. And having Sophie’s occupation as a journalist is perfect. What could be more ideal then putting a journalist and a band together. The only disappointment I had was that there was no audio – I would have loved to listen to some of Tuscq’s music while reading this book. Maybe someone will develop an ipod/e-reader combination. In the meantime, I’ll just continue to listen to Michael.

If I ever travel “across the pond”, I’ll plan on taking Sophia’s story with me. It would be interesting to travel to all the places mentioned in the book. This way, I would get to experience some of what Sophie got to. But I may have to find out what band may be traveling in the same vicinity of where Tuscq was playing in the book. If not – pack lots of CDs.

This was a great book to start this series off with. The ending was not something I was expecting. It’s a great lead in to the next book coming out. I’m looking forward to see what happens to Sophie next in book two titled Sophie’s Run. We can look forward to it coming out in February of 2013. You can also check out Nicky’s web site at http://nickywellsklippert.wordpress.com/.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Nicky Wells, Author

About Nicky Wells: Romance that Rocks Your World!

Rock On! Nicky Wells writes fun and glamorous contemporary romance featuring a rock star and the girl next door. She recently signed her work with U.S. publisher, Sapphire Star Publishing. Nicky loves rock music, dancing, and eating lobsters. When she’s not writing, Nicky is a wife, mother, and occasional teaching assistant.

Originally born in Germany, Nicky moved to the United Kingdom in 1993, and currently lives in Lincoln with her husband and their two boys. In a previous professional life, Nicky worked as a researcher and project manager for an international Human Resources research firm based in London and Washington, D.C.

Visit Nicky on her blog where you can find articles, interviews, radio interviews and, of course, an ongoing update on her work in progress, the second and third parts of the Rock Star Romance Trilogy. You can also follow Nicky on Twitter and find her on Facebook. Nicky is a featured author on the innovative reader/author project, loveahappyending.com and has joined the Romantic Novelists’ Association. Nicky also has author pages at Sapphire Star Publishing and, of course, Goodreads.

About Sophie’s Turn

Slapper. Slut. Adulteress. These are hardly words that Sophie Penhalligan would normally use to describe herself. Yet this is exactly how she is behaving, all things considered, even if she isn’t quite married to Tim yet. And it’s all happening because her past is coming to tempt her! Nine years ago, she met her teenage idol and rock star extraordinaire, Dan, up close and personal. Well, almost. Now Dan has crash-landed back in her life. How could Tim ever stand a chance against the charming, handsome singer? How could she?

Sophie, now twenty-eight and a budding newspaper journalist, is happily embroiled in a relationship with Tim, her boyfriend of two years. Until recently, she was confident that Tim would eventually propose—probably as soon as he could get his act together. But just as Tim’s persistent inaction is beginning to cast a cloud over their relationship, Dan’s sudden reappearance turns Sophie’s world upside down. Thus unfolds a roller-coaster of events including an ill-fated trip to Paris with Tim, a night of unfulfilled romance with Dan, Sophie and Tim’s engagement party gate-crashed by Dan, and Sophie’s professional secondment to accompany Dan’s band on their revival tour—at Dan’s special request and very much against her will.

And then, one fine day in Paris, Sophie suddenly finds herself engaged to Dan while her erstwhile fiancé Tim is... well, doing whatever it is Tim does back in London. What is she to do now? Who wouldn’t give anything to meet their favorite star, let alone marry him?

Find out how Sophie gets into this impossible situation, and how she turns it around, in Sophie’s Turn, the honest, funny and sometimes bittersweet story of one woman’s entanglement with a rock star.

Sophie’s Turn is available in Kindle edition from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk and many other Amazon sites. The paperback edition is also available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. In addition, you can obtain Sophie’s Turn from Barnes & Noble.