Today I am sharing with you my review of this delicious new release from Isabella May. Thank you to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me to join the tour and for my copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Book Description
1960's Somerset is no fun for cousins Polly and Annabelle Williams. Mourning their non-existent love lives, and the mundanity of village life, their only pleasure is baking - until a chance encounter has them magically transported to the bright lights of London... in 2019!
Promised a chance of love, first they must teach the people of the future about the simpler pleasures of life by becoming Cake Fairies. Over the course of a year they set off on a delectable tour of the UK, dropping off cakes in the most unexpected of places and replacing the lure of technology with much sweeter temptations.
But will their philanthropical endeavours lead them to everlasting love? Or will they discover you can't have your cake and eat it?
My Review
I was really excited to be given the opportunity to read and review this wonderful new release from Isabella May as I have loved her previous releases. Once I saw the beautiful and bright book cover I could not wait to get started on it.
It is 1969 and cousins, Polly and Annabelle are living a quiet life in the countryside near to Glastonbury. The girls both share a love of baking and they run a bakery in the village. They both take part in baking for their local WI but they both feel like their lives are passing them by and they are both unlucky in love.
The local fair is on so they both head there looking for some excitement. Neither of them were planning for quite the level of excitement they had ahead of them after entering the tent of Amber Magnolia. She explains to the girls why they have been so lucky in love. She tells the girls they have one more chance to find love but they will have a mission to complete before they find it. Their mission is to become the cake Fairies and secretly deliver a cake every day for a year to different locations within the UK. Both Polly and Annabelle are sceptical about the plan especially when it involves time travel but they both reluctantly agree and they then find themselves thrown into life in 2019!
Things for the two of them are very confusing as they begin to explore their new surroundings for the year.
Things are so different for the girls as they try to get used to how different their lives now are. The fashion, the cars and the technology are all new to them and all take a lot of getting used to.
The girls both seem to be having different experiences within their new lives and with the challenges they have to face.
With their year of travelling the country Polly and Annabelle meet new people and make friends.
As their year begins to come to end they both look at where there adventure has taken them and will love have blossomed for the pair. They also have a huge decision to make but what will the pair decide.
I loved this book from start to finish and could not put it down.
The writing style of this is fun and quirky and I loved the different idea of time travel and cake.
The setting in 1969 is very well described and gives you a good basis of why things will be so different for both of them when they travel ahead to 2019.
It is great to read all of the differences and difficulties they both have in 2019 especially with the technology, this really did make me laugh.
It is clear as you read the book that you realise the differences in Polly and Annabelle but you also understand why they have such a close relationship. They both understand each other so well and do a great job of trying to do what's best for each other even if it doesn't seem that way at the time.
This is such a wonderful read that is fun and quirky and one I am sure you will love, just be warned this book is full of delicious sounding cakes that will definitely leave you feeling hungry and make you wish you could just jump into the book.
Published 10th January 2020
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About the Author
Isabella May lives in (mostly) sunny Andalusia, Spain with her husband, daughter and son, creatively inspired by the mountains and the sea. Having grown up on Glastonbury’s ley lines however, she’s unable to completely shake off her spiritual inner child, and is a Law of Attraction fanatic.
Cake, cocktail, churros, ice cream and travel obsessed, she also loves nothing more than to (quietly) break life’s rules.
The Cake Fairies is her fifth novel.
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