The Greek Heart
My Rating: 4.25
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Format: eARC*
Publication Date: September 10, 2020
Author: Kate Frost
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~Book Blurb~
A broken heart, an island escape, a boy from the past. Will Lottie’s search lead to love?
When a special anniversary takes Lottie on a journey to find the little boy she once knew, it’s a chance to put heartache behind her.
Lottie’s search takes her to Greece and a family who have known about her for decades. A warm welcome gives her some much-needed time out and the chance to reflect. Yet an emotional revelation and two handsome but complicated brothers make her question her past decisions.
Learning to love herself and be content on her own is the first step. But will Lottie be able to follow her heart and find lasting happiness?
~My Thoughts~
Even though I can’t travel right now, I love reading these novels set in far off (for me) locales, especially when they are done this well. Kate Frost is so good at writing descriptive scenes that I felt like I went to Greece.
If I closed my eyes and huddled in front of my heat vent by the window, I could pretend of I was sunning myself in Santorini. Because I felt that transported by her descriptions.
Lottie was a good character because she was both unique but entirely relatable. She had open heart surgery as a child, which kind of set the story for the book as it probably did for Lottie’s life. While I can’t empathize with that kind of trauma as a child, Lottie’s feeling of heartbreak and loneliness were easily identifiable. I physically felt her isolation before she decided to travel to Greece.
Once in Greece, can I just say I fell in love with everything and everyone. Everyone. This love triangle was so well done that I felt my own loyalties torn. This is the opposite of an annoying, distracting love triangle. Instead, this story represents the real life struggle of making choices. Most of the time, true choices don’t have a clearly right path. You have to figure that out for yourself, and that’s some of the fun of life.
Adding Santorini to my travel booket list right now and hopefully I meet even half of the colorful characters that Lottie does.
~About the Author~
Kate Frost is the author of character-driven women’s fiction (The Butterfly Storm series and Beneath the Apple Blossom), romantic escape novels (The Baobab Beach Retreat, A Starlit Summer, The Greek Heart and The Amsterdam Affair), and Time Shifters, a time travel adventure trilogy for children. She has a MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, where she also taught lifewriting to creative writing undergraduates.
Kate lives in Bristol with her husband, young son, and their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Frodo. She feels very lucky to spend her days writing, but when she’s not working on a novel, she’s the Director of Storytale Festival, a new city-wide children’s book festival that she co-founded in Bristol in 2019 with the ethos of making books accessible to all and encouraging children and teens to read, write and be creative.
*Special thanks to Kate Frost and Rachel’s Random Resources providing a copy of The Greek Heart in exchange for an honest review.
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