His Mercy ✝️

Review: The Pool guy by Melissa A. Volker

Holiday must read of 2021!

The perfect story to make you shake off the 2021 work jacket as you slip into holiday mode! The writing is light, feel good and even if you’re not going away for holiday it will inspire you to dance in the rain or take a dive into the pool clothed.

My only complaint…I wish it was longer!

I’m a huge Melissa fan, so needless to say, I can’t wait for the next one!

Echo of pain

Safe

Grief

BOOK REVIEW: SHADOW FLICKER BY MELISSA A. VOLKER

Kate is determined to put her past behind her when she starts a renewable energy assignment in an Eastern Cape surfing village, St Francis Bay. Here Kate is faced with fears from her past, and locals protesting her project.

Between trying to prove that she was the right choice for the assignment and her panic attacks from her traumatised past; Kate meets Matthew, a handsome vet and surfer who is still grieving the death of his wife.

Shadow Flicker is a beautiful love story – one so well written that I didn’t want the book to end. Where I usually can’t wait to find out what will happen next, with this book, I paced myself because I wasn’t ready to let go of the characters. I don’t want to give anything away, trust me and read it.

All the characters in this book are well written and feel like people you know. You get lost between the characters and forget that you aren’t really in St Francis bay – living among the lives of these characters.

What I love most about Melissa’s writing, and it was the same in A Fractured land, her ability to describe the environment. She transports you to where she wants you to be. You can feel the sea breeze – smell the old farmhouse.

I loved Melissa’s writing when I read A Fractured land – but now I honestly think I am her biggest fan!

Maybe if

Maybe if I wore less makeup

Maybe if I wasn’t walking by myself

Maybe if I dressed a little more conservative

Maybe if I was more confident

Maybe if I shouted instead of cried

Maybe if I ran

Maybe if I stayed home

Maybe

Maybe

NO!!!!!

Maybe there should be no maybe.

 

 

Changes

From beyond

I dream that we walk hand in hand
We talk
Connect
I feel loved
Safe
I wonder if this is your way of telling me,
You yearned for that too.

Breathe

When no one was watching, and everyone thought she was doing just fine.
He was the one who unclenched her fist, placing her hand in his and whispered…Breathe.