Farm Fatale by Wendy Holden

As much as I liked Farm Fatale by Wendy Holden there were parts of the book that I had a hard time with. Rosie and her boyfriend mark are off to live a life in the country, Eight Mile Bottom is a small village and I think both of them are looking to this new start in different ways. Rosie is looking for that inner happiness that she has been longing for, thinking that being away from the drama and hassle of the city is just want her and Mark need. Mark on the other hand is convinced or rather tries to convince himself that his journalism career is going to take off by writing about country life in rural England.

The village is full interesting characters that I think help the story along, without all their antics and bizarre personalities the story might have fallen flat.

One stand out was the vivacious Samantha, her personality alone and charismatic dialog will make you laugh out loud. She is simply outrageous and addictive, but I wasn't quite sure her motives at times weren't purely selfish.

Through and through Farm Fatale has it's charm, but off and on throughout the chapters I felt that the story dragged along and went off in a few tangents that were unnecessary and hard for the reader to follow.

Rosie and Mark, a couple living in chic urban squalor, pine for the rustic bliss of country life. Newly minted, Samantha and Guy want the same thing-on a somewhat grander scale. The four converge on the quaint village of Eight Mile Bottom. With its eccentric residents, including a reclusive rock star, a nosy postman, a foxy farmer, and one ghost with a knife in its back, the two couples are soon swept up in various romantic entanglements, mix-ups, slipups, and unlikely seductions in their search for ever-greener pastures.