Julia Blake’s Lost and Found is Book 1 in her Blackwood Family Saga.
This book is a perfect summer read. Well, it is an exciting book whatever season, but the 4 books in the Blackwood Family Saga are on my summer TBR list and I’ve been looking forward to them. To me, Lost and Found felt like just the kind of summer read I would look for. It reads like going to an exciting movie, a movie that is both a love story and a thriller and pushes all the right buttons, gives you the right thrills and brings you to an exciting, edge of your seat ending, before you can relax and wonder what the next compelling sequel will offer. It is very entertaining.
I loved the four main characters, who were surprisingly well- developed in this 200 page fast-paced book. Ms. Blake can get a character down quickly and I love her dialogue and banter between characters, which enhances your understanding of them. The many other books I have read of Blake’s have been large books, but her skill allows her to accomplish character development in a shorter space as well. This is a different genre for her, but she handles it like a pro, like she’s written many of these fast-paced romantic thrillers before. Luke is the Blackwood family member featured in book one. The Blackwood family is complex. There have been three mothers and one Blackwood father, and so the grown Blackwood children are three sets of half brothers and sisters. The father, George, has died and Luke’s brother, Marcus, runs the multi-million dollar family business. Luke is Marcus’ half brother and he too is successful in his own business. He rescues children who have been kidnapped! He is handsome, kind, courageous, thoughtful and caring. You just love him. But he has never fallen truly in love till he meets Arianna and her daughter Lucia. Arianna has been abandoned by an abusive husband and left to raise her daughter on her own. She was going to leave him when he disappeared. She is proud and self-sufficient, earning her own way by being a housekeeper and raising a most loved and wonderful daughter. Arianna is beautiful and kind, but also hurt and distrustful of men. Lucia is a charming, precocious and yet believable child and I was smitten with her instantly. Blake writes her very well. And then there is Isabella, Arianna’s sister-in-law, who hates her abusive brother and has always been a support to Arianna and Lucia and she plays an important role. She is a woman with mysteries of her own and you want to know more about her. The romance sparks from the beginning and Blake writes love-at-first-sight well. Then there are a lovers’ misunderstanding, quickly followed by a kidnapping and then ever-escalating threats to the main characters, culminating in a very nerve wracking and suspenseful conclusion. Yes! Just like a good summer movie! Next I’m on to Book two, Fixtures and Features, which stars Marcus, the oldest brother.
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A gripping, fast paced book, that will have you glued to your couch
I couldn't put this down, I went overtime something shocking with my reading quota with Lost & Found, because it was so, so facinating and interesting. I totally enjoyed the banter, but not only the banter but the thoughts of both Luke and Ariana, both not letting on how they felt for each other in the beginning and I was totally memorized and totally invested in which I hoped was going to be the start of a memorable love affair. However I thought Isabella Santorini was a very dangerous woman and I totally agreed with Luke "a woman he would avoid playing poker with" . I certainly didn't like the way Isabella was using 7 year old Lucia. I could see nearing the halfway point that this could get very messy and complicated. I read on, kind of not wanting it to end, then it did get very messy and complicated indeed. Something had happened, but I can't tell you what it is, because that would spoil the story, all I can say is, I need soup!! . I loved the style of chapters used in this book. Yes, each was numbered, but to give it more of a personal feel of that chapter, Julia has included a quote used within that chapter, it gave you more of a heads up of what was ahead. I was all in favour of this little teaser. Julia is an expert at weaving complicated issues, intriguing characters with all sorts of dynamics of personalities all in one story that will never leave you bored. Highly entertaining. Recommendation Genres are - Thriller - Suspense - Romance. A totally gripping fast paced action filled story which will have you glued to your sitting place (or lying if you read in bed). . Lost & Found Julia Blake I bought this as an ebook off Amazon.com
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2020Format: KindleVerified Purchase
I couldn't put this down, I went overtime something shocking with my reading quota with Lost & Found, because it was so, so facinating and interesting. I totally enjoyed the banter, but not only the banter but the thoughts of both Luke and Ariana, both not letting on how they felt for each other in the beginning and I was totally memorized and totally invested in which I hoped was going to be the start of a memorable love affair. However I thought Isabella Santorini was a very dangerous woman and I totally agreed with Luke "a woman he would avoid playing poker with" . I certainly didn't like the way Isabella was using 7 year old Lucia. I could see nearing the halfway point that this could get very messy and complicated. I read on, kind of not wanting it to end, then it did get very messy and complicated indeed. Something had happened, but I can't tell you what it is, because that would spoil the story, all I can say is, I need soup!!
A gripping, fast paced book, that will have you glued to your couch
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2020
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I loved the style of chapters used in this book. Yes, each was numbered, but to give it more of a personal feel of that chapter, Julia has included a quote used within that chapter, it gave you more of a heads up of what was ahead. I was all in favour of this little teaser. Julia is an expert at weaving complicated issues, intriguing characters with all sorts of dynamics of personalities all in one story that will never leave you bored. Highly entertaining.
Recommendation
Genres are - Thriller - Suspense - Romance. A totally gripping fast paced action filled story which will have you glued to your sitting place (or lying if you read in bed).
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Lost & Found
Julia Blake
I bought this as an ebook off Amazon.com
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