My Favorite Things: Blog Tour: Finding Home by Aine Kelley

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Blog Tour: Finding Home by Aine Kelley

About The Book:

Title: Finding Home

Author: Aine Kelley

Can two broken people help each other learn to love again and find their way home?

For Samantha Cole, love and relationships have never come easy. Pain and heartbreak have forced her to build a wall around herself. Hoping to start over, Sam leaves Boston behind and moves to Napa with her best friend. Trying to make better choices in love, Sam establishes rules to keep her heart safe. Little does she know that one man will challenge her and change her mind. He has the potential to break down her walls and bring her heart back home.

Ben Foster has been dealing with heartache and guilt for the past two years, believing he lost his only chance at love. Pounding guys on the Rugby field and running the family winery get him through the pain. When Sam arrives the fog over his life slowly lifts. He wonders if she is the one who can help his heart find a new way home.

Letting go of the past and moving forward is not always easy. Their connection is strong, but their pasts keep getting in the way. Will Sam and Ben's journey tear them apart or help them find a place to call home?

My Review:

Finding Home by Aine Kelley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Finding Home by Aine Kelley is awesome! A story of love, loss, betrayal and how two people manage to make it past all that BS. With the help of John Cusack and a boom box of course.

The 80's were very important to me and I love that Sam had a habit of relating to 80's movies (Say Anything, Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, etc).

Sam has been betrayed by her past boyfriends and is absolutely NOT ready for another, but then she talks to her besties brother Ben on the phone one night and her interest is piqued.

Ben is still mourning the death of his fiancee from two years ago and is in no place to move on, but when he speaks to Sam on the phone one night he realizes that she is stirring something inside him thats been closed since before the tragedy.

A cute story of love with a Happily Ever After.

Women everywhere want their happy endings and happily-ever-afters. That's what I want. I want the boom box over the head of the guy playing the song for the girl he loves. I want my Say Anything moment. Is that Rrally too much to ask?
-Sam

Fun Facts:

1. I have a potty mouth. It doesn’t come out all the time but when it does it tends to shock people.

2. I am a sucker for anything chocolate. It is a true addiction.

3. I love wine. Like really love wine. Red or white, I’m not biased.

4. I attend boot camp twice a week for personal torture. That’s when you may hear my potty mouth.

5. My original title for Finding Home was Say Anything, but legally I didn’t think I could do it.

6. My Kindle currently has 40+ books waiting to be read and yet I keep one-clicking. It’s yet another addiction.

7. I am a sucker for the Love Songs channel on Sirius XM. I’ve been known to wipe away tears as I’m driving and listening to a mushy and gushy one.

8. Some of the best friendships I have formed started on Facebook. Being in the indie author world I get to talk to the most amazing women I have had the pleasure of knowing.

9. I started writing Finding Home on my summer vacation before going back to work. I worked on it every night after my kids went to bed. It is a true labor of love and I have a new appreciation for people that work multiple jobs and juggle being a wife and mother.

10. Like Sam in my book, I am a true 80’s geek and love all things movie and music from that time period.

11. I’m an only child.

12. I love the Peanuts. I have to watch the holiday specials every time they come on with my daughters.

13. I go to the beach pretty much every day in the summer.

14. I’m a big sports fan. My favorites are football and baseball. Go Patriots and Red Sox!

15. I was editing my book when the Red Sox won the World Series. I was so excited that my lap top fell off my lap and crashed on the floor. I then happy danced around the house.

About The Author:

I'm a wife, mother, teacher, and now author. Aine Kelley is my pen name for when I take off my 'super mom' cloak and write. I'm a Massachusetts native who resides in a small seaside community outside of Boston.

Besides my immense love for my hubby and two girls, I'm a huge lover of the Patriots and Red Sox! I'm a one click addict and love getting lost in a great story. I can be wooed or bought, depending the situation, with wine and chocolate. Like Samantha in my book, I'm a huge 80's movie lover and a music freak! My love of books, beta reading for authors and reviewing for a blog, led me down the writing path. My motto is: Live freely, laugh heartily and love deeply.