Island in the Sun by Janice Horton #Review

Today we are travelling to the Caribbean to the wonderful Pearl Island for Janice Horton's Island in the Sun.


When successful jewellery designer Isla Ashton unexpectedly inherits her eccentric Aunt Kate’s Caribbean island, she is obligated to return to the place she associates with heartache and regret. To where she grew up and fell in love with her childhood friend, Leo Fernandez. Fully intent on selling the island and finally putting the past behind her, Isla is soon compelled to put together the pieces of what really happened on a fateful night ten-years before. She begins to believe that in going to prison, Leo hadn’t only been shielding her from the same fate. She also starts to suspect that her late Aunt hadn’t been entirely honest in sending her away under the guise of recriminations. Who had they both been protecting and why?

 

My Thoughts

This has a truly escapist, exotic setting and is full of the flavours of smuggling, pirates, deserted islands, sunshine, treasure wrecks and romance. Written mainly through Isla's eyes, you also get to travel back through the decades to read Kate's story through her journals. It is an effective structure which moves the story along nicely, as events in the past cast light on the characters we have met.

    The most intriguing of the characters is Kate whose death has been the catalyst for Isla's return to the island. Initially full of anger and resentment, Isla has to re-evaluate past events as she learns more about some hidden secrets. Full of brilliant sunshine and sparkling seas, you feel as though you dive into the story.

In short:  Caribbean romance and adventure combines to make a lovely read.

 

About the Author 

Janice Horton, also affectionately known as the backpacking housewife, writes contemporary romantic fiction with a dash of humour and a sense of adventure. Once her three children had grown up, Janice and her backpacking husband sold their empty nest in Scotland UK along with almost everything they owned and set off to travel the world. Since then they have been traveling full-time and have explored over 50 countries, living out of an apartment, a hut, or wherever they happen to find themselves.

Janice works as a writer wherever she is in the world. When not writing bestselling romantic adventure novels, she writes lifestyle and travel features for her website and her work has featured in national and international magazines like ‘Prima’ in the UK and ‘Friday’ in Dubai. She has also been involved in BBC Scotland’s Write Here Write Now project and has been interviewed on many podcasts and radio shows including Loose Women’s Kaye Adams’ prime time BBC Radio Scotland Show.

You can follow Janice here: Website   |  Twitter   |  Instagram 

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Book links: Amazon UK 

Thanks to Janice and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.

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