I’m so happy to say I’m part of Shoot The Moon by Bella Cassidy book tour on behalf of Rachel’s Random Resources. A big thanks to Rachel and Bella Cassidy for the book to bring you my thoughts on the book.
Tassie Morris is everyone’s favourite wedding photographer, famous for her photos of offbeat ceremonies and alternative brides. Yet commitment is proving impossible for Tassie herself, who cannot forget her first love.
When she’s sent to photograph a ceremony on Schiehallion – the Fairy Hill of the Scottish Caledonians – she meets Dan, who might be the one to make her forget her past. That is, until a family crisis begins a chain of events that threaten to destroy not only Tassie’s love life, but her entire career.
Set in a colourful world of extraordinary weddings, Shoot the Moon explores the complexities of different kinds of love: romantic love, mother love, friendship. And, ultimately, the importance of loving yourself.
A contemporary romance about life and family by a new author to me. I had no expectations as I started to read, but hoped I would enjoy this book.
We meet Tassie, a wedding photographer for a magazine. She is well known in her work and we see she has plenty of friends but her boyfriend from her teen years, Alex is still at the forefront of her mind. She just can’t get over him. On a wedding job she meets Dan and they spend a perfect week together and then we see her life begin to go wrong. As life colludes to keep them apart, we see them on a rocky road, but will they be able to get everything sorted and be together?
The book is a great tale of love, the ups, downs, twists and turns are here for us to see. It is an authentic story of real life and the issues people come across. The realistic story makes for an engrossing read.
Tassie hasn’t just got troubles on the love front. She struggles with her family so her friends are her family and they have so much love between them it’s gorgeous to see. Her relationship with her mum touched me so much. I could easily relate and this made the story what it is.
A book that maybe be a romance but it’s not your normal run of the mill romance. There is so much more to Shoot The Moon, than romance. It’s a story of heart break, secrets and just how damaging non communication can be. This made me feel I could have been reading a story about real people with flaws and all
Bella Cassidy has written a book that is so very human and honest. The characters are realistic, the story intriguing and I am raring to find more books by Bella Cassidy. Her writing is great! A great read for those who prefer romance on the contemporary side.
Purchase Links
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/SHOOT-MOON-alternative-game-hearts-ebook/dp/B09D2DHZYG
US https://www.amazon.com/SHOOT-MOON-alternative-game-hearts-ebook/dp/B09D2DHZYG
Author Bio
Bella Cassidy grew up in the West Country – reading contemporary romances, romances, historical novels, literary fiction… just about anything she could lay her hands on. After a few years in London, working as a waitress and in PR and advertising, she went to Sussex to read English – despite admitting in her pre-interview that this rather sociable period in her life had seen her read only one book in six months: a Jilly Cooper.
She’s had an eclectic range of jobs: including in the world of finance; social housing fundraising; a stint at the Body Shop – working as Anita Roddick’s assistant; as a secondary school teacher, then teaching babies to swim: all over the world.
She’s done a lot of research for writing a wedding romance, having had two herself. For her first she was eight months pregnant – a whale in bright orange – and was married in a barn with wood fires burning. The second saw her in elegant Edwardian silk, crystals and lace, teamed with yellow wellies and a cardigan. Both were great fun; but it was lovely having her daughter alongside, rather than inside her at the second one.
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