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BOOK TOUR STOP x RANDOM THINGS TOURS: The All At Sea Trilogy by Gemma Roman


Book One: All at Sea

Alice is young, in love and living on the Cornish coast. 
Life should be perfect. But when her meets Mia, a magnetic newcomer to town, she starts to question everything. 

Kai proposed to Alice before they left for their work trip - she should want to say yes. She wants to say yes. 

But suddenly nothing makes sense. 






Book two: Changing Tides

Can you ever really move forward without looking back?

Five years have passed and Melissa has the chance to come back to the cottage by the sea where all the drama unfolded. 

In need of a fresh start, can she put the past behind her in the very place that left her heartbroken?




Book three: A Line in the Sand

Can you ever be completely honest with someone you love? And with yourself?

Just as things were coming together, they are starting to fall apart. 

Will Alice be able to put her indecision aside before she loses the love of her life? 

Will Mia finally love herself enough to love someone else?




The All At Sea Trilogy is a sweeping collection of three short stories that centre around a quiet cottage on the Cornish coast. Just like the choppy waters outside the cottage gate, this story shows how love can rush in and sweep everything else away, taking everything in its path. Beautiful, but sometimes painful and destructive. The prose is lyrical, descriptive and flowery — invoking emotions of loss, love and loneliness.

Thoughtful and reflective, our characters lives weave together over the pages and it’s their own development that moves the story forward in a quiet, quite slow pace that spans years and jumps through time, showing us the little moments in the lives of our characters that changed their trajectories forever. 

We don’t get to spend much time with the characters before moving on to the next part of their journey, but they start to feel familiar as we move through. In each step of the way, we hear from everyone involved - hearing from all sides of the story to create a picture of not only the inner turmoil and insecurities of these people, but how their decisions impact others and ripple out into world creating a tangled web of emotions that binds them together. 

A delicate, moving story about the way love can change lives — for worse and better.



I was gifted a reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review. Thank you to Anne at Random Things Tours for inviting me to take part in this tour.
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