Thursday, July 23, 2015

Sex, Lies and Cruising by Cathryn Chapman




Synopsis:


Exotic locations, sexy men, and crazy crew parties… Ellie has her dream job… or does she?

When Ellie's fiancé cheats on her with a younger, slimmer, blonde from the office, she boots him out of her life and finds solace in a fabulous photography job aboard a Caribbean cruise ship. Twenty-four hours on board and she’s already shagged her sexy Texan colleague, who happens to love her muffin-top. Unfortunately he’s leaving in a week, and his ex-girlfriend, a hot-headed Brazilian with stripper moves right out of the 90s and a talent for stealing boyfriends, is still on board and out for revenge.


Ellie must work out how to deal with the loco ex, sort the lying scumbags from the good guys, and figure out how many crew members in a cabin it takes before officially becoming group sex. Who the hell knows? (It’s five, actually.) It’s a world completely unlike the one she left behind, but as she tries to find her place on board, Ellie discovers laughter and tears in equal measure. And in the midst of the craziness, she realises the greatest thing this lifestyle change has given her is the chance to rediscover herself.












In reading this book I noticed a lot of differences between the U.S. and Britain. We spell things differently and have way different slang. Just name a few. Don't get me wrong this was a good book and I can't wait until the next one but for me it was a little hard to get past the differences.
I think it was the subject matter to that kinda put me off. I've never been on a cruise and there was words and phrases I had no clue what they meant. It made it hard to follow completely.
Then the story of Ellie falling for the same type of guy multiple times. I know it happens and the way the story progressed made me want to smack her and tell her to open her eyes, these guys are losers. 
Argh it's so hard to write this without giving away the story. I enjoyed the book eventually, it started slow and confusing but did end up making sense in the end. I would give this book 4 stars.







Amazon: http://bookgoodies.com/a/B00W85ZX2K

iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sex-lies-and-cruising/id987736128

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sex-lies-and-cruising-cathryn-chapman/1121785596





About the Author:


Cathryn Chapman nearly gave up her writing career when her eighth grade English teacher refused to believe her sensual poem could have been written by somebody so young. Two years later, when Cathryn was fourteen, that same English teacher declared she should start writing for Mills & Boon, and a women s fiction writer was born. Cathryn graduated from university with a Business Degree and spent seven years travelling the world working on cruise ships, and living in London, New York, Paris and South America. In her thirties, she left a successful marketing and public relations career to pursue her dream of gracing the stages in London's West End. When this failed dismally, Cathryn settled down with a husband and baby boy, and stayed in one country long enough to finally write her first novel, SEX, LIES, AND CRUISING.












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2 comments:

  1. Thank you for the review! I'm so pleased that despite the issues with language etc you still enjoyed it in the end! Hopefully you'll be pleased to see Ellie's emotional progression in the second and third books... She's on a long journey though! Hehe :) Thanks again x

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