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  • Sunrise Over Sapphire Bay

  • By: Holly Martin
  • Narrated by: Penny Andrews
  • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (176 ratings)

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Sunrise Over Sapphire Bay

By: Holly Martin
Narrated by: Penny Andrews
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Summary

Fall in love with the beautiful Jewel Island this summer, where the sapphire sea sparkles, the golden sun warms your skin and the islanders melt your heart.

From the best-selling author of The Little Village of Happiness comes Holly Martin’s most romantic novel yet.

Aria Philips has lived on Jewel Island all of her life. Even when her sisters left its stunning shores, Aria stayed to help her father run their family hotel. A year after her father’s death, Aria’s done everything she can to keep things afloat, but the hotel has long been struggling to make a profit.

With so few guests, Aria risks losing the only home she’s ever had. Noah Campbell earned his fortune from making hotels a success, and he also just happens to be staying on Jewel Island this summer. Could he be the answer to Aria’s problems? Yet, for the past year Noah has been keeping a secret, and his return to Jewel Island is about to change Aria’s life forever.

©2020 Holly Martin (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd
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Thoroughly enjoyable

Great narrator, loved the characters, very easy listening and a story that is simply lovely and gives a good feel factor. Sit back and relax

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Another great story

Loved the book, characters and storyline.
Didn't enjoy the narrator's voice and it didn't match the characters either

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Mostly a lovely story

I enjoyed most of this story though I did skip it one part when it reached absolute stupidity. The most annoying thing was the narrator voice Once I got past that it was ok.

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Lovely feel good book.

Really easy listening and her usual lovely style. I really enjoy this series of books.

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Nice story

I really didn’t like the narrators voice - it doesn’t fit with the story - so won’t be listening to the others in the series

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Lovely start to this series.

I loved this book, Noa and Aria were a lovely couple who had a lot of trust issues to work through. I liked the way Aria likes to help the people of the Island. I look forward to following the progress of the hotel throughout the series. I think this will be a fun community to be a part of through this collection of books.

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Feel good & uplifting

Just what I needed! So easy to get into and it’s your typical feel good book. Loved it and I actually wished it had more. Got so invested in the characters and their lives and I can imagine this being a Hallmark movie or series.

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The narrator put me off

Unfortunately I couldn't cope with the voice of the narrator. I've read Holly Martin's books before and know how fabulous they are so this review really is not for the book as, to be fair I could not listen to very much of it as the voice really did put me off. such a shame.

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Another hug from a Holly Martin Book

Been working through Holly’s books on audible for the last few weeks and this one was brilliant too. As always I loved the characters and my heart went out to them.

But also, sorry, I disagree with the other reviews on the narrator. She really brings a sweetness to the characters and represents them well adding to the emotion of the book. I look forward to books read by her.

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Don’t let the narrator put you off a good story!

I actually really enjoyed this. I know a lot of the reviews said the narrator was annoying and whilst I totally understand why they would say that and she was a bit grating to begin with, since listening to around 60 audiobooks now, I’ve learnt that you do often get used to the narrator and actually she got better and the other characters were distinctive. I’ve heard worse where there is no character distinction at all. I got very used to the softly spoken voice in the end, it was quite comforting. So don’t let it put you off. As to the story, I was expecting it to be a bit lame having not read any by this author before but actually it was anything but. It was generally a simple story but it kept my attention the whole time and was a lovely distraction from real life! Will look out for the sequels!

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