Today it's my turn in the BlogTour Tipping Point by Emily Benet.
Emily Benet is a journalist, award-winning blogger and author of contemporary fiction. Her books include the blog-to-book Shop Girl Diaries, Wattpad hit Spray Painted Bananas and social media romcom #PleaseRetweet. She lives in Mallorca with her husband and daughter and the sunny island is the setting for her latest novels The Hen Party and Tipping Point. She writes regularly for the luxury lifestyle magazine abcMallorca.
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About the book
The sun ... the ocean ... the farmhouse ... the scammer... the police... the 3-legged dog?
George and Ellen have retired to sunny Mallorca. Social butterfly Ellen is itching to make yacht-owning friends while George's heart is set on a secluded farmhouse in the country. In fact, now that they're no longer living busy London lives, they're beginning to realise they have very different ideas of happiness.
Private investigator Salva specialises in cases of adultery. That's why it's particularly embarrassing that he didn't realise his long-term girlfriend has been cheating on him. He has no time to nurse a broken heart, since his family are the victims of a property scam they urgently need him to solve.
Robyn Chase is giving talks on her self-help book, No More Toxic Relationships - 7 Years, 7 Lessons. She's finding it awkward being a relationship guru when her own boyfriend is avoiding her.
The sun is shining in Mallorca and everything looks beautiful. But the residents of one particular apartment block are about to discover it all might be too good to be true.
The four main characters of the story, Salva, Robyn, Ellen and George, all live in the same apartment block. It's a bit like multiple storylines with characters and moments that intersect here and there.
The story of Ellen and George was very relatable. Friends of mine are going through a similar experience of being married for many decades and retirement resulting in being confronted by the stranger you call your spouse.
The odd habits, the lack of physical attraction and sexual frustration in equal measures. Being annoyed by the things you used to find charming and amusing, and feeling the seeds of discontent and perhaps even hatred being sown. Ellen wants to live life to the fullest and experience excitement in every way shape and form, unlike George who wants to live a quiet life in a Majorcan farmhouse. The two couldn't be more different in their approach to what they want for the rest of their lives.
Salva is a private investigator, who is great at his job, but bad at noticing his relationship crumbling. And then there is relationship guru Robyn, who writes a good yarn and yet in reality her own life isn't exactly perfect.
Benet catches the way our lives are interwoven with each other, which is often just based on fleeting connections and other times substantial relationships can grow. I think Ellen and George serve as a reminder that we often have partners for certain periods of our lives and they are exactly right for some periods of our lives, but not right for others.
We go through growth and change, the kind of change that makes us take a closer look at what makes us happy and content. If where you are at right now doesn't - then change it, regardless of whether the change is your partner, home, country or job. Don't stagnate and dwell in a quagmire of dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Want change or a different kind of happy or peace - go find it. Life isn't looking for you it's waiting for you to come looking for it. That's what I took from this read.
The story of Ellen and George was very relatable. Friends of mine are going through a similar experience of being married for many decades and retirement resulting in being confronted by the stranger you call your spouse.
The odd habits, the lack of physical attraction and sexual frustration in equal measures. Being annoyed by the things you used to find charming and amusing, and feeling the seeds of discontent and perhaps even hatred being sown. Ellen wants to live life to the fullest and experience excitement in every way shape and form, unlike George who wants to live a quiet life in a Majorcan farmhouse. The two couldn't be more different in their approach to what they want for the rest of their lives.
Salva is a private investigator, who is great at his job, but bad at noticing his relationship crumbling. And then there is relationship guru Robyn, who writes a good yarn and yet in reality her own life isn't exactly perfect.
Benet catches the way our lives are interwoven with each other, which is often just based on fleeting connections and other times substantial relationships can grow. I think Ellen and George serve as a reminder that we often have partners for certain periods of our lives and they are exactly right for some periods of our lives, but not right for others.
We go through growth and change, the kind of change that makes us take a closer look at what makes us happy and content. If where you are at right now doesn't - then change it, regardless of whether the change is your partner, home, country or job. Don't stagnate and dwell in a quagmire of dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Want change or a different kind of happy or peace - go find it. Life isn't looking for you it's waiting for you to come looking for it. That's what I took from this read.
Buy Tipping Point at Amazon Uk or go to Goodreads for any other retailer. Publisher: Little Cactus Publishing; pub date 5 May 2020. Buy at Amazon com.
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