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Review: Under a Summer Sky - Melody Carlson

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Review: Under a Summer Sky - Book #3 Follow Your Heart Series - Melody Carlson - June 2017 Nicole has been feeling stuck and, in a rut, as she teaches high school art and it seems that the spark is starting to fade as when she was younger, she wanted to be an artist and even spent time in Europe appreciating art in the real world but now it's the same thing over and over again - teaching art in a classroom. When her mum's childhood friend Vivian calls her mother offering Nicole a summer job away in Savannah, Georgia managing her art gallery and house-sitting, this may be the push Nicole needs to get stuck and explore her options and find the reason she loved art in the first place and to get some painting of her own done. Vivian's husband has shouted Vivian a world cruise and so she will be absent all of the summer and now has left Nicole the keys to her gallery and house. While in town though things aren't going to be easy as the other worker at the Art Gallery Amyra a...

Review: All Summer Long - Melody Carlson

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Review : All Summer Long - #Book 2 Follow Your Heart - Melody Carlson - June 2016 One of my favorite Christian authors is Melody Carlson and I have decided this year to try and get back into reading more CF and what better author to restart than Melody Carlson and catching up on the books of hers I haven't yet read. This particular one takes place in San Francisco which I loved as in December 2013, I visited it with my friend Nina and loved it. It reminded me of Wellington where I was born in New Zealand. The different places the main character visits, I felt myself going "I've been there, I remember that place". In All Summer Long, Tia is moving back to help her Aunt Julie and her Uncle turn their yacht they have inherited into a dining experience and a floating restaurant. With Tia's cooking background, she has been hired as the chef and to help with the menu and design. This is the change she was looking for and a new start. Tia is in for a surprise as she is a...