When Miles Harrington gets engaged he wants his best friends, Leo, Zane and Cooper to be groomsmen in his wedding and he would love it if the other billionaires came and spent a few week on Sanctuary Island. Miles did warn the guys that when you come to the island, most people end up finding love. Of course all his bachelor friends laugh at this notion so Miles' makes a bet that whoever does not fall in love by the day of his wedding can have his helicopter and launch pad at the club.

Lord Leo Stratham may be from British royalty but he knows he will always be a bachelor. When Leo has to pick a reading to be read at Miles' wedding he knows that he needs help.....Leo doesn't know how to read very well. Leo decides to head to the Sanctuary Island library for help. There he meets Serena Lightfoot, the town's quirky head librarian. As these two spend more time together, things heat up quickly. Just as it looks as if these two will get their happy ending, Leo's secret comes to life and Serena feels betrayed because of events from her past. It will take a lot for this stubborn Brit to throw away his pride in order to win the woman's heart he truly wants.

This was such a sweet novella. I really liked both of these characters and really enjoyed their happy ending.

A good hangover should be a total mystery to you.

How did this happen? Why do you feel so ill?

Pretend to yourself that you drank less than you did. Insist you stuck to beer, forgetting the champagne at the start of the evening and the round of jalapeño tequilas you did for a bet in that club next to the dual carriageway at 2 a.m.

So far, this has been the best one in the Ladybird series, yet. And I mean the best of both the kids and the adult series.

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Not only did I grow up surrounded by books of this ilk, I still have a few. This might not be so funny if you didn't read in this style as a child, but I enjoyed a wry chuckle. The art is magnificent. There are several pictures that killed me, the cover is one. Some of the art, framed, would be awesome in the library next to my childhood Nancy Drews, or arranged above the drinks cabinet.*

*These are a purely theoretical library and drinks cabinet. Currently the shelves are randomly distributed throughout the house, decorated with too many books and ten years worth of dust, and I haven't hung any art in the fridge over my box of wine, but I can envision a minimalist modernity above with both.

Thanks to Chris' Fish Place for the hot tip!

I've never had  a hangover, most likely because when I start to feel a bit silly, I stop drinking.  But this parody of Ladybird books is absolutely side splitting funny.

The cat, OMG, they put in the cat. 

And the names, the names.  And look at the letters before the author's name.

NOTE:  I received a copy of this book from NetGalley.  This review is my honest opinion of the book.

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Dragon Fireside Tales consists of a collection of poems and short-stories, most of which are rather short.  I'm not a poetry fan so the poems didn't interest me much.  The fantastical stories are entertaining and strangly compelling, with quirky twists or endings.  There were some common themes and characters in these stories, which added to the oddness.  I did, however, think that some of the stories needed more polishing or editing.  Overall, an entertaining, light read.