A Smile in a Whisper by Jacquelyn Middleton is NOW LIVE!!
ABOUT THE BOOK.
A SMILE IN A WHISPER is a dual timeline love story ideal for fans of Christina Lauren's Love and Other Words and Carley Fortune's Every Summer After.
NOT ALL FAREWELLS ARE FOREVER...
Evie Sutherland throws herself into everything. Like many on Scotland's picturesque Orkney Islands, she works several jobs: managing her family's shop, researching genealogy for tourists, and writing historical romance novels. Evie aces most challenges--except love. With a childhood diagnosis of Crohn's disease and a disastrous dating history, Evie has convinced herself that guys won't date the "sick girl" and the blame falls on the shoulders of her first love, a famous boy from London who spent his summers on her island.
To the outside world, Nikolai Balfour lives a charmed life. Starring in a popular British TV series as a teen, young Nick stole fans' hearts from the Isle of Wight to Shetland. However, that was a lifetime ago, and the years since have been filled with "Didn't you used to be..." moments, career wrong-turns, and empty relationships. Now finding success behind the cameras, Nick is still racked with regret and guilt over how things ended with the Orcadian girl he'd loved and left behind.
But when a television series filming in Orkney blows Nick back into Evie's quiet life, they're forced to face their heartbreaking past and revisit old secrets that should never have been kept.
Unfolding in alternating past and present timelines, A Smile in a Whisper is a touching story of first love and second chances, and the enduring summer memories that shape us.
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MY REVIEW.
3 Stars from Tiffany!
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Slow Romance.
In A Smile in a Whisper, Jacquelyn Middleton introduces readers to Evie and Nick, as well as the beautiful Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland. I appreciated the note from the author in the beginning and the glossary at the end (which probably should have been at the beginning also), so I knew what in the heck I was reading.
We travel from past to present with Evie and Nick learning their origin story if you will. Nick was a child actor that Evie had a crush on and was more surprised to find out her brother was best friends with him, so he was around quite a bit over the years. Evie has Crohn’s disease (it was intersting learning more about this and the effects it has on a person’s health and lifestyle), and it made her stand out amongst her peers from a young age. Evie really wanted to be a “normal kid” and sometimes Nick made that easier for her.
While predictable, I had a difficult time connecting with this book. It was busy and too much to keep track of at times with the past and present. It didn’t feel like there was much chemistry between the main characters and while I’m not an insta-love fan, this was too slow of a pace for me. I needed something more of a middle ground from these two. A Smile in a Whisper reads as a standalone with a nice epilogue to wrap things up.
MEET JACQUELYN MIDDLETON.
JACQUELYN MIDDLETON is an award-winning author of love stories for hopeful romantics--'hopeful' because her novels are always full of optimism and a 'happy ever after' is important now more than ever before. But life is messy, relationships are messy, and her books aren't afraid to go there, too. If you enjoy character and relationship-driven stories about people dealing with the triumphs and disasters we all face, Jacquelyn's books are for you.
In 2019, she was named BEST CANADIAN AUTHOR at the Toronto Romance Writers 'Northern Hearts' Awards for UNTIL THE LAST STAR FADES. She is also the author of LONDON BELONGS TO ME, LONDON, CAN YOU WAIT?, SAY HELLO, KISS GOODBYE, and THE CERTAINTY OF CHANCE.
An own voices author, Jacquelyn has dealt with anxiety, panic attacks, and depression all her life, and is dedicated to depicting mental health challenges realistically and empathetically in her novels.
Jacquelyn's books have been featured by The Hollywood Reporter, NBC News, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, USA Today, Cosmo, Redbook, and the Huffington Post.
She lives in Toronto with her British husband and Japanese Spitz dog.
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