Random Things Tours: Promise Me by Jill Mansell

 

Lou had a beautiful life and a well paid job until everything ended up. It happens to many those years and it used to happen before our generation as well. As usual, there are victims and survivors, and moments when one realises what really matters in life, and especially who. In Lou´s case, she is a fighter that is brought by fate in a little quaint village in the Cotswolds where she is longing for a better life and maybe a new romance too.

Jill Mansell´s latest Promise Me, branded as ´the heart warming novel of 2023´ is fully in sync with the expectations. Complex interactions between characters, heartwarming characters and situations, good hearts at work, overall an empathic ambiance embracing the reader to enjoy and feel good and see life in a kinder way. 

What I really loved in this book, that I devoured during one long weekend read, are the good hearted characters. They naturally behave as good humans and this angle makes for me ´feelgood fiction´ a refuge and source of solace when there is too much - equally human - negativity in humans and situations.

Promise Me promises a story that may be predictable still unpredictably kind packed with beautiful stories. Worth reading it when feeling down or just looking for a good read, with a quiet touch of the Cotswolds and heartwarming romance.

Rating: 4 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own