Review: The Friendships Online Series Parts 1&2 by Anne John-Ligali
The Friendships Online series is a three part novella series and the blog tour for the third has started. I am part of the blog tour for The Dinner in the Sky, with my review being on June 13th. To prepare for Dinner in the Sky, I read the first two novellas of the series and I will be sharing my review for them today. The Dinner in the Sky was released yesterday, May 31st.
Books in the Series:
The Big Event
The Weekend Spa Break
The Dinner in the Sky
The Big Event
Published: November 30, 2017
28 Pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Date Read: May 16, 2019
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
You are cordially invited to the party of the season where you’ll meet Constance and friends in action.
Constance Jeffries is excited when she gets the chance to meet up with virtual friends at a get-together in a London hotel. She’s been tweeting and messaging her lovely friends for years and feels they must be just as excited to finally meet her in person too. Or so she hopes.
The Big Event is first part in a short story series about the importance of ‘real’ friendships and how it’s the little things that matter the most.
A Gorgeous Venue, A Room Full of Friends, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Jessica’s Review:
The Big Event is the short story beginning to John-Ligali’s Friendships Online trilogy series. Constance is a writer and has been online friends for years with several fellow authors and finally has a chance to meet them at a party! But things don’t go quite as she expected, in good and bad ways. This short story introduces us to a variety of characters that we are sure to get to know over the course of the series.
The Big Event also shows how much of a hindrance social media has become in our world. Do we really need to be sucked into our phones all the time?
This is a short read at 28 pages and can be read in less than an hour. Do read it and get to know Constance and be ready for the second in the trilogy: The Weekend Spa Break.
Purchase Links:
**This one is FREE!**
Amazon US
Amazon UK
The Weekend Spa Break
Published: April 30, 2018
148 Pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: May 19-23, 2019
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
After finally meeting in person at the publishing party of the season, Constance and Estelle are determined not to let their friendship return to mere virtual champagne bottles and uploaded pictures of food.
It’s been a busy year, and Constance feels it’s time to reward herself with the spa break Estelle gave her for Christmas. Naturally, Constance wouldn’t dream of taking anyone other than Estelle, and this will provide the perfect opportunity to bond with her new chum.
As the excited pair spend some quality time together, they realise it’s not just writing books they have in common, but something that goes much deeper. After a few Jacuzzi sessions, facials, pedicures, and a massage by sexy Senior Therapist, Julio, everything seems to be peachy until an unexpected visitor turns Constance’s weekend of bliss … on its head.
A two-day spa break.
Sparkling water on tap.
And the perfect massage.
But who’s rubbing who up the wrong way?
Jessica’s Review:
The Weekend Spa Break is the second in the Friendships Online short story trilogy. Weekend picks up where The Big Event Ends. We are with Constance and Estelle and they are having a wonderful spa weekend relaxing and getting to know each other better and discovering how much they actually have in common! And who is this hottie that Constance keeps seeing around and exchanging glances with?
Every woman needs a spa break getaway with her girlfriends. After reading this I found myself thinking how much I really could use one! This is an enjoyable story that goes in an unexpected direction that wants you to start the next in the series: Dinner in the Sky to see how this story ends!
Social media is still an integral part of the story and really makes you think how much should we really be sharing to and who might be seeing our updates?!?!?!