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The Northern Lights Lodge - Julie Caplin

 


Description

Escape to the cosiest little lodge in Iceland for love, log fires and the Northern Lights…

With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn’t quite expect to find herself in a land of bubbling hot springs and snowflake-dusted glaciers – and in the company of gorgeous Scottish barman, Alex.

Determined to turn her life around, Lucy sets about making the lodge the number one romantic destination in Iceland – even though romance is the last thing she wants. However, as Alex and Lucy grow closer under the dancing lights of the aurora, Lucy might just learn how to fall in love again…

Review

A lovely gentle read.

I've read all the Julie Caplin novels in this series apart from this one, which I came across in a charity shop the other week. Despite having many other books to read and review I couldn't resist starting this one and I wasn't disappointed.

Set for the most part in Iceland, I just loved the descriptions and glimpse into the culture that Julie provides. I enjoyed the descriptions of hotel life and the camaraderie between the staff and the insight into their characters. 

With a number of things going wrong at the Northern Lights Lodge and the Huldufólk (elves) getting the blame, can Lucy turn the lodge around? She's the latest in a long line of managers who've tried and quit. Of course they didn't have the benefit of Alex being around. He's a barman who has maybe more to him than he appears to be as well as catching Lucy's eye.

I'm giving this book 5 out of 5 stars.

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