Emily Blaine gives "Rendezvous at the Cottage of Forgotten Hearts"

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• For the holidays, a feel-good novel: "Rendez-vous at the chalet of forgotten hearts" by Emily Blaine published on October 6, 2021 by Éditions Harlequin.

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 Emily Blaine, whom she interviewed.

His novel was published on October 6, 2021 by Éditions Harlequin.

Her favorite quote:

- I was singing Last Christmas.

Nicolas Gaillard, you're just… wanton, she added with a smile.

- I prefer the term "pragmatic".

Why this book?

• Because it's a feel good novel that passes by itself

  during this festive period.

  And that it's always to be faced with such fluid and pleasant writing, especially at this time when everything is gray and gloomy, because we all need a little moment of relaxation, I confessed to Emily Blaine in interview.

  “When I write, I think about what my readers want to read,” she replied.

  Do they want drama or something that will disconnect them from reality?

  I am a great optimist, and it makes me happy to be told "I opened your book and it did me good."

  "

• Because the love story, even if it begins with a cliché

  (two people who claim to be together to infuriate an ex-boyfriend, and who will get closer) asks a very real question: from totally opposite universes , will they be able to live their romance? And because with the exception of the ex, who we love to hate, the characters are all endearing, with their qualities and their faults, and reveal themselves over the pages as real companions. “I need when I write to love and appreciate my characters,” Emily Blaine tells me, “to ask myself, can I be friends with them? I take a lot from my own friends, my colleagues… There are character traits that influence the creation of my characters. "

• Because the atmosphere of the story, the Christmas holiday period,

  is always an easy subject to start a romance (we think here of the famous Christmas TV movies not very credible, as Louise mentions in the novel). The little extra for me is Louise's chocolate factory. The idea of ​​the numbered box of chocolates really exists and seems to come from Rennes. Emily Blaine remembers "the numbered chocolates" her brother gave her one year. It is this memory which "allowed him to create the universe and the atmosphere of the chalet". Notice to amateurs!

• Because even though this novel is the sequel to

  Kissing You in the Snow

   released in 2020, it can read on its own, like a single book.

  If the previous volume presented Evan, leader of the music group, we now discover Nicolas, the guitarist and the sparkling Louise.

  “I really like Louise,” says Emily Blaine, “because she's a bit clumsy, but above all, super-sweet.

  I also have a weakness for heroes that I haven't worked on yet.

  »Like the drummer Maxime, the last member of the group that we are waiting for next year.

  
  

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

 Their first meeting is around jars of pickles.

Nothing predestined them to meet again, and yet their story will begin with a role-play when Nicolas is going to pretend to be Louise's boyfriend.

Everything opposes them and yet, they will come closer.

Characters.

 Nicolas is the guitarist of a famous rock band.

Louise, she lives a simple life and puts all her energy into the chocolate factory she created a year earlier.

Evan, Juliette, Maxime, Mathilde, Nicolas's friends present at the chalet.

Places.

 In a village in Savoie.

The time.

 Nowadays.

The author.

 Emily Blaine, novelist specializing in modern French romance, signs here her fifteenth novel.

This book was read with amusement

.

I loved the two main characters and their always humorous exchanges.

I do not forget the secondary characters who absolutely do not make wallpaper.

Everyone would want friends like this!

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