Book Review: From Notting Hill with Love.... Actually by Ali McNamara

Synopsis:

She was just a girl, standing in front of a boy . . . wishing he looked more like Hugh Grant.

Scarlett loves the movies. But does she love sensible fiancé David just as much? With a big white wedding on the horizon, Scarlett really should have decided by now . . . 

When she has the chance to house-sit in Notting Hill - the setting of one of her favourite movies - Scarlett jumps at the chance. But living life like a movie is trickier than it seems, especially when her new neighbour Sean is so irritating. And so irritatingly handsome, too.

Scarlett soon finds herself starring in a romantic comedy of her very own: but who will end up as the leading man?

My Review!

This book has been sitting patiently on my 'to be read' pile for a while now, so I was so pleased to finally get to read it. I LOVE the title of this book, this is the first book in a 3 part series (the title's of the next two books are also fab!)

The main character in this book is Scarlett who I warmed to immediately, she is obsessed with the movies and who can blame her! When we first meet Scarlett she has just arrived in Notting Hill and being 'movie mad' she starts to compare her surroundings with the films she loves. 

Here is where she meets Oscar, they hit it off straight away and you get to know more about her and why she is in London. 

Scarlett shares a cinema popcorn machine business with her father, so we can see why she is so cinema mad, she is engaged to David who sounds very sensible and boring and then there is her best friend Maddie. 

Maddie, David and her father think that Scarlett is too obsessed with the movies so she decides to take a break from it all and house sit in London.

I was not a fan of David, he sounded so stuffy and to be honest a right bore, I didn't feel that he suited Scarlett and didn't share her love for all things movies.

However, stand aside David because here we meet Sean Bond... (Yay!) 

Sean was Scarlett's new next door neighbour, his sister Ursula was Oscar's friend so we see quite a lot of Sean throughout.

Sean and Scarlett attend a wedding together in Glasgow and you start to see the great chemistry they have together.

As well as the love triangle the book takes a different turn and we find out that Scarlett doesn't know her mother and soon possibilities start to open up to try and find her, this leads Scarlett and Sean travelling to Paris and back where they grow closer. 

Scarlett is confused on whether David is still the right choice for her or whether she has developed feelings for Sean. Everything comes to a head and Scarlett has to make some choices, will she marry David and does she find her mum...

I did enjoy this book, some of the movie comparison's and quote's were quite corny at times but it's ok... 'I'm looking for corny in my life...' (oh lord now I'm quoting Kate Winslet in 'The Holiday'!)

I am looking forward to reading the sequel to this 'From Notting Hill to New York... Actually '

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