I’m always happy when I can travel to Magpie Cove, meet the lovely community and enjoy these lovely novels.
This is another excellent addition; it was the perfect read for a winter afternoon when you’re not feeling well, and you want to escape and live in another reality.
Even if it’s a poignant, emotional, and heart-warming novel there’s also a darker side, there’s secrets, threats, and suspense.
I appreciated how well the author mixed the different elements always keeping the reader on the edge and guessing. I didn’t guess who and why and found the revelation satisfying and well done.
I loved Connie, a well-developed and relatable character, and wanted her to be happy and safe. I rooted for her and Alex and like the slow burning romance.
I was happy to catch up with people from the previous books and loved the descriptions of Magpie Cove.
This is the third book in a series and it can be read as a stand-alone.
I hope to be able to travel back to Magpie Cove soon.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I love getting approved for a Netgalley ARC. The Daughters Of Magpie Cove By Kennedy Kerr was such an interesting story to read.

It follows Connie as she returns home to Magpie Cove to help run her Uncle Bill's smuggling museum. Connie moves in with her mother, as she is getting older and needs help as well. Connie starts to make friends in the village, including the local pub owner Alex, but soon something from her past becomes a present concern.

This book is honestly the perfect mix of romance and suspense bordering on thriller. I absolutely enjoyed every minute of reading it and found myself constantly wondering what was going to happen next.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author, Kennedy Kerr, and the publisher, Bookouture for gifting me the EARC for review!

Rating: 4 Stars

(Will post review manually on Goodreads as Netgalley is giving error that it is unable to find.)

It's a long time since I last visited Cornwall, but this book conjures up the place exactly as I remembered it. Beautiful coastal scenery, small fishing villages, and the hint of smugglers around every corner. This book is the story of Connie and Alex, but in many ways, that takes second place to Connie and the other women who grew up in Magpie Cove.
Connie has returned home to work in her family's museum after losing her job in the theater due to cutbacks. It isn't what she wants to do, but the more time she spends there the more she enjoys it.
Much of this book focuses on the person who is leaving threatening notes for Connie. It's something that she experienced in her teenage years and one of the reasons that she was so keen to getaway. There are a number of people who could be responsible for it and Connie does suspect a few people for while. I had worked out by the end who it was and sort of why, but that doesn't really matter.
This book does have a romance element, but really that's a secondary storyline. I like the way that this played out. Connie doesn't instantly fall for Alex and when she eventually recognizes her feelings, everything doesn't play out as you might expect in a 'classic' romance, which I really enjoyed.
This was a great read that kept you turning the pages. There were elements of suspense, romance, and returning home after an interval and working out your place in life. All in all a good read.
I received a complimentary copy of this book through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own and given voluntarily.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an early review copy.

My last book for Netgalley this year.

Connie’s mother asks her to come back home and help run the museum as her Uncle is getting old, and his health isn’t as it was.

But, it seems, what happened in her teenage years, is continuing. She’s being stalked. She meets Alex, and the two come to blows the first two times they meet. But, after a while, they seem to be getting on well and Connie is still thinking if her stalker is him. After an incident at the museum Alex manages to convince Connie to get the police involved and tell them what happened. So, she does, but she’s still not sure who that person is and why she’s being targeted, the police can’t do much with her knowing who it can be.

Connie’s life is a path, she’s walking down and she comes to a fork, one side she’s enjoying the good times, and the other, the bad things are happening. Connie loved what she was doing at the museum, but you couldn’t know how she was feeling on the inside.

I was hooked, as I wanted to know who her stalker was out of the people she was friends with, and whether my guess was right.

The past books in this series have been a fabulous read and this was no different.

I realised why this book is titled as it is.

Another fabulous book by Kennedy Kerr.

A quick read set in Cornwall. It is part of a series and, not having read the previous books, I think it does stand on it's own as I wasn't confused with any aspects of the story. There are a lot of serious issues addressed in the book namely bullying, stalking, harassment and mental health. However, the main character, Connie, is obviously the victim in this story, but is not without prejudice herself . She dismisses the local 'farm' lads as basically thick and not worth knowing which irritated me somewhat as she comes across rude and intolerant of others especially initially. The characters are well drawn and a good addition to the plot with plenty of secrets and feuds plus a rather rocky romance .

The story
This is the third book in the author’s Magpie Cove series. The stories are set in a small village in Cornwall. In this story, Connie has moved back home to Magpie Cove after loosing her job as a stage manager in a theatre. Her uncle Bill has offered her work in the Smugglers museum and operating his boat tour business. But Connie is soon peering over her shoulder constantly, someone is stalking her. Can the handsome Cornish local Alex Gordon change her mind about Magpie Cove?

My thoughts
On one hand, this story has the romance of a new relationship between Alex and Connie, but much of the story is the fear and stress that Connie feels about being back in Magpie Cove. Acquaintances from school days reappear in Connie’s life and not all are friendly. Alex is also at first a not-too-friendly character. But Connie’s mom shamelessly and quite openly trying to marry her off to a local lad was the saddest part of this story, if I were Connie, I would be mortified. 🙈

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I found Connie fascinating and the dreadful and hurtful notes and damage to her property was very worrying. I was captivated by how the story and the romance unfolded. It was a heartwarming story and loved reading about the history and background to Connie's story. It was a turn up for the books to realise who was responsible for the hurt inflicted on Connie. It was a real page turner and I loved all the characters. My first book from Kennedy Kerr but I will certainly seek out the others she had written.

When Connie Christie’s mother summons her home from the city to Magpie Cove to take over the family business – a quaint, charming museum – Connie is reluctant. The cove holds nothing more than bad memories for Connie, memories she’d rather leave buried…
I was drawn into this fabulous storyline from the first chapter and read the whole book in one sitting. Simply devoured it. Well worth a read!

DAUGHTERS OF MAGPIE COVE by KENNEDY KERR is a romantic suspense novel with many twists and turns which takes place in the little Cornish village of Magpie Cove.
When Connie Christie goes back to help her Uncle Bill at the Shipwreck and Smuggling Museum, she is plagued with the same frightening problem she had as a school girl - she is being stalked by a hooded man or woman who sends her hateful letters.
First of all, due to some gossip she hears, she is wary of the handsome Alex Gordon, and then feels the hooded stalker could be either Ellen Robb or Hazel Goodie who were at school with her.
The book is rich with the smuggling history of the wild and beautful Cornish coast and the families who have lived there for generations. Could Connie’s problems be caused by a long standing family feud?
It is an exciting and interesting read and one I really enjoyed.
I was given a free copy of the book by NetGalley from Bookouture. The oinions in this review are completey my own.