Things we need to say by Linda Middleton

Thank you, @zooloosBT, for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Things We Need to Say has a beautiful front cover and excellent title that’s fitting for the story. This Is a romance genre that is heartwarming and a light read. The story is about Emma, who is a trainee hotel manager that is having a rough time at her job, and is going out with Jay, who is a chef that wants more experience and wants to enter a competition, but this causes problems in their relationship. I liked the characters immensely and felt like I was attached to both them and their story, and I also loved Liz, who is friends with Emma and Jay. This is book 2 in the series, and you can read it as a standalone, as I did, but I definitely will go and read the first book. Things We Need to Say is an exquisite read, and I read it in two days. It is beautifully written. Strongly recommend 5 stars. Bio My novels, Things They Never Said and First Impressions are contemporary romances set between London and Cheshire, two of my favourites places. For as long as I can remember I have loved getting lost in a good book. My mum would take me to the library and I'd return home full of excitement at what I was about to read. I also loved cooking so I went to university to study Hotel Management in a city where I had always dreamed of living. I loved the vibrancy of the city and lived there for nine years. When it became too expensive, I moved back to Cheshire, to another city I had fallen in love with, Chester. After a few years I found I didn't enjoy working within the catering industry, and held a succession of jobs, managing a bookshop and then secretarial work. In my spare time I began to write. At first I wrote short stories and had several published in women’s magazines but I really wanted to become a novelist. Towards the end of 2022 I sent Things They Never Said to Choc Lit (now part of Joffe Books). To my delight they accepted it and it was published in June 2023. My second novel First Impressions came out in August 2024, and a third book is in the pipeline. I do hope you enjoy reading them. ─────────☆────•────☆────•────☆────•────☆────•───────── Where can you find them? Instagram https://www.instagram.com/middletonwrites/ ─────────☆────•────☆────•────☆────•────☆────•───────── Book Links Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239230144-things-we-need-to-say Blurb Don't let The One become The One Who Got Away. Emma thought she had her life figured out - the career, the love, the future. But her career feels like it's going nowhere, and her once-perfect relationship with Jay is beginning to unravel. She fears that the life she envisioned is slipping away. Jay has always dreamed of running his own restaurant. But he never imagined that in chasing success, each step forward would pull him further away from Emma. As cracks in their relationship deepen, Emma and Jay realise that their love story wasn't as perfect as they once believed. There are things they've never said to each other - things they must confront if they're to save what they once had. If they don't take control of their own happiness, they might lose the one thing they can't afford to - each other. Emma and Jay are about to discover that finding where you truly belong means letting go of everything you thought you knew about love . . . and yourself