mpr2000's review against another edition
4.0
Clio Winters is fulfilling her dreams at Cedarwood Lodge. With the help of some old and new friends she will try to repair her life, but will there be celebrations and confetti at the end of her path?
This is the first book of the trilogy Cedarwood Lodge and I am sure that after reading the first one, you'll want to know more like me!
Clio Winters has left her job and friends after a bad experience in New York and she's decided to make Cedarwood Lodge the best retirement place she can create. It will not be an easy task, but with the help of her childhood friend Micah, the sexy surfer project manager Kai and the garden designer Isla, she will have all the help she will need!
There's love in every corner of Cedarwood Lodge, but some mystery and secrets too... What Annabelle (Clio's mum) knows about Cedarwood Lodge past? What is she hiding?
While you are reading this book, you will feel like the characters and story is real and you are watching them behind the crystal. Romantic but real, something that can happen to us and will keep dreaming all night!
This sweet book will put a smile on your face but will have enough secrets to want you to continue reading and wanting to know more! When will be the next book available, I can not wait!
Ready for a sweet adventure?
This is the first book of the trilogy Cedarwood Lodge and I am sure that after reading the first one, you'll want to know more like me!
Clio Winters has left her job and friends after a bad experience in New York and she's decided to make Cedarwood Lodge the best retirement place she can create. It will not be an easy task, but with the help of her childhood friend Micah, the sexy surfer project manager Kai and the garden designer Isla, she will have all the help she will need!
There's love in every corner of Cedarwood Lodge, but some mystery and secrets too... What Annabelle (Clio's mum) knows about Cedarwood Lodge past? What is she hiding?
While you are reading this book, you will feel like the characters and story is real and you are watching them behind the crystal. Romantic but real, something that can happen to us and will keep dreaming all night!
This sweet book will put a smile on your face but will have enough secrets to want you to continue reading and wanting to know more! When will be the next book available, I can not wait!
Ready for a sweet adventure?
sarahs_bookish_life's review
4.0
This is the first book in the Cedarwood Lodge series of which is a little over a 100 pages long, so didn’t take long to devour at all.
I fell in love with the Lodge as much as Clio. You can’t help but feel and see everything she does when it comes to renovating it. I was as excited to see it get completed and see it in all it’s glory. The fact that it has some history also really appeals.
There was so much to like about this book. There is romance, friendship as well as intrigue that will ensure that you keep turning the pages. It will certainly leave you looking forward to the next book in the series.
Celebrations And Confetti At Cedarwood Lodge is a charming and wonderful story and a must read for fans of this genre.
I fell in love with the Lodge as much as Clio. You can’t help but feel and see everything she does when it comes to renovating it. I was as excited to see it get completed and see it in all it’s glory. The fact that it has some history also really appeals.
There was so much to like about this book. There is romance, friendship as well as intrigue that will ensure that you keep turning the pages. It will certainly leave you looking forward to the next book in the series.
Celebrations And Confetti At Cedarwood Lodge is a charming and wonderful story and a must read for fans of this genre.
kyland80's review against another edition
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
clarab12's review
4.0
My very first kindle book was a Christmas at the gingerbread cafe and ever since I have been a huge fan of Rebeccas books!
Celebrations and Confetti is the first of a three part series where we meet Clio.
Clio left home years before with big ambitions and runs into a bit of trouble which sees her fired fromher job and heading back home.
She buys the Cedarwood lodge and sets about restoring it to the beautiful building it had once been.
She gets a booking for an anniversary very early on and is left worrying that the renovations will not be finished on time!
Such a fun story and I just can't to read more! Rebecca has yet to let me down with her story telling
So if you like a bit of romance with a little bit of drama thrown in then you will love this book!
Celebrations and Confetti is the first of a three part series where we meet Clio.
Clio left home years before with big ambitions and runs into a bit of trouble which sees her fired fromher job and heading back home.
She buys the Cedarwood lodge and sets about restoring it to the beautiful building it had once been.
She gets a booking for an anniversary very early on and is left worrying that the renovations will not be finished on time!
Such a fun story and I just can't to read more! Rebecca has yet to let me down with her story telling
So if you like a bit of romance with a little bit of drama thrown in then you will love this book!
clair_82's review
5.0
Celebrations & Confetti is the first instalment in the Cedarwood Lodge series, focusing on the renovation of Cedarwood Lodge, introducing us to the characters and hosting its first function, the wedding anniversary party of Edgar and Imelda.
Clio Winters was a successful wedding planner in New York, having escaped the small town of Evergreen pursuing her dreams, until she gives the wrong advice to a bride she was so desperately trying to help. Unfortunately for Clio, she chose the wrong bride to help who is now dragging her name through the mud for all the publicity she can get!
Clio has taken a gamble on the derelict Cedarwood as she has a vision for it being a grand place for celebrations and holidays. There is a scene early on in the book where Clio describes her vision and its so wonderful that it actually gave me goosebumps and is the sort of place I’d like to escape to (I had the family resort location of Dirty Dancing in my mind as it has that whole 1960’s family holiday feel – massive Dirty Dancing fan!). Clio is reunited with her best friend Micah to help fulfil her vision and employs the lovely Izzy to sort out the grounds and the gorgeous Kai to project manage the renovations.
I loved all the characters but particularly Edgar and Imelda, who are still completely head over heels in love with each other after 50 years of marriage and the ideas that Clio has for their party are beautiful. Edgar and Imelda are so dedicated to one another but have had to work at it which leaves Clio wondering whether love will pass her by. This wonderful couple have advice for the characters in the book which we could all take away.
Raisin has written a novella that does finishes enough to ensure that break to part 2 is not disruptive to the overall narrative, but with enough unanswered questions to look forward to the next instalment, Brides & Bouquets which is out on the 24th November.
Celebrations & Confetti is such an easy and heartwarming read about love, hopes and dreams and I can’t wait for part 2 (and 3!).
Clio Winters was a successful wedding planner in New York, having escaped the small town of Evergreen pursuing her dreams, until she gives the wrong advice to a bride she was so desperately trying to help. Unfortunately for Clio, she chose the wrong bride to help who is now dragging her name through the mud for all the publicity she can get!
Clio has taken a gamble on the derelict Cedarwood as she has a vision for it being a grand place for celebrations and holidays. There is a scene early on in the book where Clio describes her vision and its so wonderful that it actually gave me goosebumps and is the sort of place I’d like to escape to (I had the family resort location of Dirty Dancing in my mind as it has that whole 1960’s family holiday feel – massive Dirty Dancing fan!). Clio is reunited with her best friend Micah to help fulfil her vision and employs the lovely Izzy to sort out the grounds and the gorgeous Kai to project manage the renovations.
I loved all the characters but particularly Edgar and Imelda, who are still completely head over heels in love with each other after 50 years of marriage and the ideas that Clio has for their party are beautiful. Edgar and Imelda are so dedicated to one another but have had to work at it which leaves Clio wondering whether love will pass her by. This wonderful couple have advice for the characters in the book which we could all take away.
Raisin has written a novella that does finishes enough to ensure that break to part 2 is not disruptive to the overall narrative, but with enough unanswered questions to look forward to the next instalment, Brides & Bouquets which is out on the 24th November.
Celebrations & Confetti is such an easy and heartwarming read about love, hopes and dreams and I can’t wait for part 2 (and 3!).
gamz's review
3.0
After reading “Rosie’s Traveling Tea Shop” by this same author I was ready to dive into more of her magic.
Weeelllp, this one was nice. It was interesting. But it didn’t WOW! me the way Rosie did.
While I liked Clio and Kai and Micah and Isla, I didn’t Love them. I didn’t connect with them. Her return to her hometown to buy the abandoned lodge after a serious mistake in NYC was nice. The team of friends that she gathered around her to make her lodge dreams happen we’re all nice. But nice wasn’t enough to make me fall in love with them and care about them.
Clio’s mom has a secret that centers around the lodge she just bought. It’s a great and terrible secret because every time the lodge is mentioned she goes into meltdown. Yeah I want to know what the secret is, but do I really have to read two more books like this one to find out? Do I reallllly want to do that to myself?
I’ll give it some serious thought.
Weeelllp, this one was nice. It was interesting. But it didn’t WOW! me the way Rosie did.
While I liked Clio and Kai and Micah and Isla, I didn’t Love them. I didn’t connect with them. Her return to her hometown to buy the abandoned lodge after a serious mistake in NYC was nice. The team of friends that she gathered around her to make her lodge dreams happen we’re all nice. But nice wasn’t enough to make me fall in love with them and care about them.
Clio’s mom has a secret that centers around the lodge she just bought. It’s a great and terrible secret because every time the lodge is mentioned she goes into meltdown. Yeah I want to know what the secret is, but do I really have to read two more books like this one to find out? Do I reallllly want to do that to myself?
I’ll give it some serious thought.
booksuperpower's review
4.0
Celebrations & Confetti by Rebecca Raisin is a 2016 Carina UK publication.
Celebrations & Confetti kicks off the first of a three- part romance series centered around Clio Winters and Cedarwood Lodge, located in the small town of Evergreen.
Clio left Evergreen with high ambitions, but all her lofty goals disintegrated when she was fired from her job, her reputation in ruins, and lawsuit hanging over her head.
Taking all the money she had, she buys the dilapidated Cedarwood Lodge hoping to restore it to its former glory and host events there. Her very first opportunity comes when a couple chooses the lodge to host their 50th wedding anniversary celebration.
Will the renovations be done in time? Will the celebration be a success?
This first installment introduces us to the cast of characters we will follow up on in the next two chapters. Clio, of course, and her best friend, Micah who is hoping to date, Isla, the gardener, and Clio’s mother who is hardly welcoming, holding on to some dark secret from the past which is somehow connected to the lodge, and Kai, the overseer of the crews working on the renovations, who may be a love interest for Clio, despite their differences.
Rebecca Raisin once more creates a charming atmosphere and location, with likeable characters, with a bit of romance, and a bit of mystery, which has me hoping the next installment will be on its way very soon!
While this book is a three-part series, this first installment did not end with an irritating cliffhanger, but there are still issues to resolve and a couple of ongoing storylines that will bleed over into the next two chapters. So, you definitely want to get started with this first book, so you can follow along with the series.
I like these serials on occasion because the stories are short and are easy to fit into a busy schedule, can be read on your lunch break, and gives you something to look forward to, building anticipation for the next installment.
Rebecca’s books are always charming and delightful and this one is no exception. I can’t wait to find out what will happen next!!
4 stars
Celebrations & Confetti kicks off the first of a three- part romance series centered around Clio Winters and Cedarwood Lodge, located in the small town of Evergreen.
Clio left Evergreen with high ambitions, but all her lofty goals disintegrated when she was fired from her job, her reputation in ruins, and lawsuit hanging over her head.
Taking all the money she had, she buys the dilapidated Cedarwood Lodge hoping to restore it to its former glory and host events there. Her very first opportunity comes when a couple chooses the lodge to host their 50th wedding anniversary celebration.
Will the renovations be done in time? Will the celebration be a success?
This first installment introduces us to the cast of characters we will follow up on in the next two chapters. Clio, of course, and her best friend, Micah who is hoping to date, Isla, the gardener, and Clio’s mother who is hardly welcoming, holding on to some dark secret from the past which is somehow connected to the lodge, and Kai, the overseer of the crews working on the renovations, who may be a love interest for Clio, despite their differences.
Rebecca Raisin once more creates a charming atmosphere and location, with likeable characters, with a bit of romance, and a bit of mystery, which has me hoping the next installment will be on its way very soon!
While this book is a three-part series, this first installment did not end with an irritating cliffhanger, but there are still issues to resolve and a couple of ongoing storylines that will bleed over into the next two chapters. So, you definitely want to get started with this first book, so you can follow along with the series.
I like these serials on occasion because the stories are short and are easy to fit into a busy schedule, can be read on your lunch break, and gives you something to look forward to, building anticipation for the next installment.
Rebecca’s books are always charming and delightful and this one is no exception. I can’t wait to find out what will happen next!!
4 stars
samstillreading's review
5.0
Nobody can ever read Rebecca Raisin’s books and fail to come out with a smile of their face. Her books have that special sparkle that puts a twinkle in your eye and for the more jaded, redeems faith in the goodness of people. I was intrigued to start a new series, set at the beautiful but decaying Cedarwood Lodge. All the characters are new, but they will become good friends.
Clio has left her job in New York City as a wedding planner after a scandal. (The scandal is both juicy and funny, but I’m not going to spoil the surprise here). She’s returned to Evergreen, the home of her youth. As a child, she and best friend Micah used to play in the grounds of the deserted Cedarwood Lodge. Now Clio’s bought it with the aim of restoring it to its former glory. Micah’s in, as is gardener Isla and manager Kai. Everyone is determined to turn the lodge into the talk of the town. Their first mission is an anniversary party for a couple married at the lodge a long time ago. There are problems at the house, but Clio’s got other troubles. Her mother is frankly against anything to do with the lodge and there’s childhood sweetheart Timothy in town too.
Being the first part of three, the reader doesn’t get all the answers to the problems, which I’m really grateful for. The sense of intrigue as to what’s up with Clio’s mum is great (and a tasty bit of information is revealed right at the end of the book). I’m also not too sure who Clio’s love interest will be – initially there was old friend Micah, handsome Aussie surfer Kai and former flame Timothy. While this story takes one of these men off the list, there’s enough mystery for me not to be able to guess who Clio will fall for. I’m really excited for the next instalment and hope that Clio’s friend from New York sticks around!
For those who miss the food descriptions of the Gingerbread Café, you will rejoice at knowing that Clio’s aunt has a delicious café with delectable treats. I’m hoping for more descriptions of food in the next story. There’s also more secrets at the lodge to discover in the wilds of the grounds – a secret maze! I will be very interested to see how this links in with Clio’s mum.
As I’m sure you can tell from the above, the story is packed full of interesting threads, but it never feels too dense or rushed. It’s a thought provoking read that really gets you into the small town spirit and is gorgeously enjoyable.
Many thanks to Carina UK for the eARC. My review is honest.
For more reviews, visit http://samstillreading.wordpress.com
Clio has left her job in New York City as a wedding planner after a scandal. (The scandal is both juicy and funny, but I’m not going to spoil the surprise here). She’s returned to Evergreen, the home of her youth. As a child, she and best friend Micah used to play in the grounds of the deserted Cedarwood Lodge. Now Clio’s bought it with the aim of restoring it to its former glory. Micah’s in, as is gardener Isla and manager Kai. Everyone is determined to turn the lodge into the talk of the town. Their first mission is an anniversary party for a couple married at the lodge a long time ago. There are problems at the house, but Clio’s got other troubles. Her mother is frankly against anything to do with the lodge and there’s childhood sweetheart Timothy in town too.
Being the first part of three, the reader doesn’t get all the answers to the problems, which I’m really grateful for. The sense of intrigue as to what’s up with Clio’s mum is great (and a tasty bit of information is revealed right at the end of the book). I’m also not too sure who Clio’s love interest will be – initially there was old friend Micah, handsome Aussie surfer Kai and former flame Timothy. While this story takes one of these men off the list, there’s enough mystery for me not to be able to guess who Clio will fall for. I’m really excited for the next instalment and hope that Clio’s friend from New York sticks around!
For those who miss the food descriptions of the Gingerbread Café, you will rejoice at knowing that Clio’s aunt has a delicious café with delectable treats. I’m hoping for more descriptions of food in the next story. There’s also more secrets at the lodge to discover in the wilds of the grounds – a secret maze! I will be very interested to see how this links in with Clio’s mum.
As I’m sure you can tell from the above, the story is packed full of interesting threads, but it never feels too dense or rushed. It’s a thought provoking read that really gets you into the small town spirit and is gorgeously enjoyable.
Many thanks to Carina UK for the eARC. My review is honest.
For more reviews, visit http://samstillreading.wordpress.com
emmascr's review
4.0
This review was originally posted on Star Crossed Reviews I received this book for free for a Blog Tour in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Thank you to Stephanie and Helena for letting me take part in this tour. I love Rebecca's books so when I saw this I knew I had to be part of it
This is a new series for Rebecca and is set in the small town of Evergreen. It follows Clio Winters as she takes over Cedarwood Lodge. The Lodge has been abandoned for many years and needs quite a bit of work. Luckily Clio has an excellent team of people behind her.
Firstly there is her best friend Micah. Micah is the brother Clio never had. They know each other inside out and have been friends since childhood. Then we have project manager Kai. Kai is a totally hot surfer dude. He's got the body of a God and the typical laid back Australian attitude that means he's calm in every situation. Finally we have Isla the landscaper. Isla is bubbly, excitable and hard working.
I really enjoyed reading this book and some parts had me discreetly wiping a few tears away. I love the romanticist in Clio and I adored Edgar and Imelda. A couple like that really proves that there is such a thing as true love.
I am extremely excited for the next part of the series.
This is a new series for Rebecca and is set in the small town of Evergreen. It follows Clio Winters as she takes over Cedarwood Lodge. The Lodge has been abandoned for many years and needs quite a bit of work. Luckily Clio has an excellent team of people behind her.
Firstly there is her best friend Micah. Micah is the brother Clio never had. They know each other inside out and have been friends since childhood. Then we have project manager Kai. Kai is a totally hot surfer dude. He's got the body of a God and the typical laid back Australian attitude that means he's calm in every situation. Finally we have Isla the landscaper. Isla is bubbly, excitable and hard working.
I really enjoyed reading this book and some parts had me discreetly wiping a few tears away. I love the romanticist in Clio and I adored Edgar and Imelda. A couple like that really proves that there is such a thing as true love.
I am extremely excited for the next part of the series.
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