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A nice book which I liked the layout and design of. The quotes were inspiring. I enjoyed it as a book to dip in and out of to have a pick me up when needed.

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First this book is just gorgeous! The colors and design are so pretty. This book would be a wonderful gift for any female in your life. Inspiring quotes by strong, powerful women.

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I love the cover of this book and I can see that in print form, it will be beautiful; it has a lovely, sparkly design that is clearly very on-brand (Follow Your Bliss, or fyb, is is the name of the author's jewellery brand). There are also some wonderful quotes here to inspire people from successful women in business.

I hadn't realised from the title of the book that following your bliss would be entirely related to starting a business and pursuing business success. I would also have liked a few more surprises: being bold, living fearlessly and thinking positively in order to be successful have been headings in self-improvement books for years so I'd have loved a fresh take on these.

There are some inspiring stories and inspiring quotes from women I hadn't heard of, so was encouraged to look a few of those people up to read more about them.

I feel this would be a good book for a young person who is looking for their first inspirational/ self-improvement book. It would also be great to accompany a piece of fyb's jewellery, which is really sweet.

Many thanks to Quarto, NetGalley and the author for a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Thank you Quatro and NetGalley for an ARC of this book.

This is an absolutely gorgeous book to read, loads of sparkle, lots of quotes and beautiful colour is used throughout.
These are short stories of numerous people outlining how they found success. I skipped through lots of the book as, although the pages were gorgeous to look at, I didn’t connect with the actual content, I didn’t feel it offered anything new and felt rather cliched.

If you are new to reading about starting your own business and following what you love to do that, then you may enjoy the stories within.

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2.5 stars. I like the idea of this book more than the execution. Instead of concrete information or ideas or advice on how to actually "follow your bliss," most of these 1-page profiles are the same cliche platitudes you've heard or read a thousand times before accompanied by quick blurbs about the woman who said it (many of them read like weird infomercials for whatever product or business they started, most of which I've not heard of). It was weirdly inspiring, I suppose, to realize that you can pretty much make a business out of anything.

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A nice book for a gift, some great motivational quotes but if I’m honest a lot of them were quite similar and I wanted to see more of a diverse mix of people and what they deem to be successful. For example it would have been nice to hear from more people who are not so career focussed. A book to keep in the bathroom and occasionally dip in to,

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This is such a lovely book filled with inspirational quotes and stories from women from all walks of life on a variety of topics. The layout of the book is beautiful, and the message is empowering!

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This book takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. Highly recommend. Especially loved the reflection to true life to humanize my feelings and relate. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

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Beautiful colors and design. Love the big quotes and all the gold speckles. The stories of triumph are motivating and inspiring. It’s easy to see my story in many of them.

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Cute little book of inspirational quotes and messages for women. The sort of book you read through then go back to your favourite parts. Brief stories of failure, negativity and feelings from prominent women who we consider to be successful, who reinforce the messages. Thank you #NetGalley for the book to review.

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What an absolutely gorgeous, inspiring book! This would make such an amazing gift for a young lady. Stunning graphics paired with quotes and stories from top female executives, athletes, entrepreneurs and the like. Truly cannot recommend this gem enough!

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