This Could Have Been Our Song! A coulda woulda shoulda ballad…
Series- Coulda Woulda Shoulda Song #1
By- Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba
Genre-Family saga/ chick lit/ interracial romance/ romantic comedy
Blurb:
Love can be such a “coulda, woulda, shoulda” song sometimes…Lucia Mpobo-Riddell could have been a dancer like the rest of women of her family but instead she chose music. Marcus Grant could have been a doctor like the rest of his family but instead he chose music. She also could have not fallen for Marcus on her birthday but she did. And Marcus, he could have told Lucia the truth about his real reason for being in Toronto that night, but he didn’t. Now they have to deal with big reveals and consequences: Marcus almost stealing her job and being force to work on an album together. Marcus, because he couldn’t swallow his pride, leaves Toronto and goes home to London. Lucia, because she just couldn’t give up on her first amazing opportunity to produce a whole album. And to complicate the situation further, the band they’re working for is not the easiest one. Mary Gillis, Marcus’ on and off flame, still has a hold on him. Greg McMullen, Lucia’s close friend and former dance partner is back in town and has been in love with her for years. Then there’s Marcus and Lucia, in the middle of their own a professional and personal tug-of- war with each over and the rest of the world. But maybe things could still work out… All things considered, this could have been one heck of a love song!
Review:
This Coulda Have Been Our Song! has everything that a reader can relate to in their own life mixed in a nice little bundle where you can watch someone struggle through them. Lot's of families issues, a complicated love story that every girl can preach about and two characters just trying to break out of a mold and make their own little circle of hell they can call theirs, while still maintaining some semblance of sanity! Lucia and Markus are strong characters with heads on their shoulders that can really convince you that this is going to work.
A rocky start doesn't even begin to describe these two meeting each other and their interactions at the beginning of the story. I loved seeing that spark develop from clear annoyance to something passionate and fun. It made the whole situation seem more natural to have some friction and then move on as they get to know each other. They could relate to each other, which created a great relationship, and the reader could relate to them as well.
The problem I ran into was all the clutter around these two characters. At the heart of this book was a beautiful love story, I just wish I didn't have to tear through layers and layers of people to get to that heart. There are so many characters in this story I felt overwhelmed keeping them straight and then all these people have what felt like fourteen names to go along with all the individuals. I had to go back and forth re-reading things just to keep everything together. It didn't stop this from being a great story, it just felt suffocated. Lucia and Markus are two peas in a very, very overcrowded pod- My Opinion- *** 3 Stars
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This Would Have Been Our Song! Catchy tunes and dancers’ tales
Series- Coulda Woulda Shoulda Song #2
By- Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba
Genre- Family saga/ chick lit/ interracial romance/ romantic comedy
Blurb:
Marcus, Greg and Lucia are back in the second part of their journey to their perfect love song... will they finally find it?This would have been their perfect love song…
It has been two years since Lucia Mpobo-Riddell has made her choice between the two men in her life. She and her beloved would have been perfectly happy if it wasn’t for… the constant distractions from her past, her sister Noor’s complicated life, her own doubts and fears. Maybe there wasn’t such a thing as perfection and this was a lesson that Lucia was going to learn the hard way. Greg McMullen and Marcus Grant’s lives had been affected by Lucia’s choice that day in Glasgow two years ago. Since then one had been fighting to keep her when the other had been relentlessly trying to get her back. It soon became apparent to them that she wasn’t the Lucia they met and fell in love with anymore. Her life and priorities had completely shifted. To even consider keeping her or just getting her back, they would have to accept it or they would have to let her go. But would they ever be able to do either?
About the author:
Meet Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba The Author, The Blogger, The Cheeky Reviewer
“My life journey is like my playlist, amazingly unique but full of contradictions with surprising joys with every song...”
In the past two years, while living in Canada, England and France I wrote four novels: This Could Have Been Our Song! A coulda woulda shoulda ballad... (Book one) currently available on amazon, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes and Nobles and Smashwords. The sequel This Would Have Been Our Song! Catchy tune and dancers’ tales has been in January 2014. Bird Of Prey, my first mystery romance novel has been released in October 7th, 2013 and its first sequel The Plot Thickens (a novella) in December. The second one Polliannah Got Married! will be released in June 2014 and the final in July 2014. I’m currently residing in Paris, France.
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