‘Such a fresh, funny romance! … Reminded me a lot of a Sophie Kinsella book’ Kaitlyn, Goodreads‘One of my favourite books of the year…it wasn’t difficult to fall for the fine specimen of Nordic swoon-worthy masculinity’ Lyn, Goodreads‘A lovely, uplifting story… comedy’ Karen Clarke
‘A proper meet-cute…DEFINITELY unputdownable’ Isabella May
‘Funny, poignant and wonderfully descriptive…an unlikely but perfect romcom’ Rachel Burton
‘If you are looking for a wonderful rom-com, that also had a few surprises in it, then this is definitely worth a read’ Rachel’s Random Reads
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Jen Attison likes her life Just So. But being fished out of a canal in Copenhagen by her knickers is definitely NOT on her to do list.
From cinnamon swirls to a spontaneous night of laughter and fireworks, Jen’s city break with the girls takes a turn for the unexpected because of her gorgeous, mystery rescuer.
Back home, Jen faces a choice. A surprise proposal from her boyfriend, ‘boring’ Robert has offered Jen the safety net she always thought she wanted. But with the memories of her Danish adventure proving hard to forget, maybe it’s time for Jen to stop listening to her head and start following her heart…
A fabulously feel-good rom com that will make you laugh till you cry and fall in love with the romance! This is a must read if you love romantic comedies by Sophie Kinsella, Lindsey Kelk or Mhairi McFarlane!
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This is probably the best romantic story of the decade, and definitely the best of the year. I know it’s only April, but contenders have a lot to beat with this sassy, funny, thoughtful and brilliantly executed novel. From the veThis is probably the best romantic story of the decade, and definitely the best of the year. I know it’s only April, but contenders have a lot to beat with this sassy, funny, thoughtful and brilliantly executed novel. From the very first page, Pernille Hughes captivated me with her perfectly imangined and expressed ensemble cast. Jen (our heroine) has a boss who is a complete incarnation of the rich, entitled, beautifully coiffed business woman who ‘has it all’ (money, looks, great staff, children, show-off-able partner) but doesn’t actually understand the real life costs of her way of living on people who are less privileged. In a short, brilliantly witty scene, the author tells us all this without an excess word or a hint of judgement. It’s all there for the reader – we are trusted to suss out these characters and enter their ways of thinking and behaving. Brilliant! I thought, I’m going to love this book. And from there it only gets better.
Jen is very engaging and her relationship with her sister Lydia provides a context and emotional depth that is too often missing in modern romance. Jen is REAL, and fully understandable, even if we don’t always agree with her choices … which of course she manages to repair by the end. Lydia is a wonderful, inspiring character (who really deserves a book of her own – I would definitely read it!). Jen’s other dedication – to her dream of a micro-brewery – is also a clever addition, giving her even more depth and purpose. The scenes in Copenhagen are very grounded and charming, making me sigh with the remembered pleasure of my last visit there. I’m sure this book should entice many an English-speaking traveller to explore Denmark – maybe the Danish tourist board should hand it out at promotional events. If only we could all meet the perfect Dane. Ah, Yakob. Hamlet, you are SO old hat with your hand-wringing style of romance – poor Ophelia. Move over and let lucky (and deserving) Jen and Yakob get on with it. All in all, this is a pleasure to read and wull brighten anyone’s day. Satisfying all the needs of the genre, Probably the Best Kiss also manages to deliver more depth and engagement than many in this mode. I will be looking out with great interest for this author’s next book.
ry first page, Pernille Hughes captivated me with her perfectly imangined and expressed ensemble cast. Jen (our heroine) has a boss who is a complete incarnation of the rich, entitled, beautifully coiffed business woman who ‘has it all’ (money, looks, great staff, children, show-off-able partner) but doesn’t actually understand the real life costs of her way of living on people who are less privileged. In a short, brilliantly witty scene, the author tells us all this without an excess word or a hint of judgement. It’s all there for the reader – we are trusted to suss out these characters and enter their ways of thinking and behaving. Brilliant! I thought, I’m going to love this book. And from there it only gets better.
Jen is very engaging and her relationship with her sister Lydia provides a context and emotional depth that is too often missing in modern romance. Jen is REAL, and fully understandable, even if we don’t always agree with her choices … which of course she manages to repair by the end. Lydia is a wonderful, inspiring character (who really deserves a book of her own – I would definitely read it!). Jen’s other dedication – to her dream of a micro-brewery – is also a clever addition, giving her even more depth and purpose. The scenes in Copenhagen are very grounded and charming, making me sigh with the remembered pleasure of my last visit there. I’m sure this book should entice many an English-speaking traveller to explore Denmark – maybe the Danish tourist board should hand it out at promotional events. If only we could all meet the perfect Dane. Ah, Yakob. Hamlet, you are SO old hat with your hand-wringing style of romance – poor Ophelia. Move over and let lucky (and deserving) Jen and Yakob get on with it. All in all, this is a pleasure to read and wull brighten anyone’s day. Satisfying all the needs of the genre, Probably the Best Kiss also manages to deliver more depth and engagement than many in this mode. I will be looking out with great interest for this author’s next book.
Jen Attison has got her life just so. She was only just an adult when her parents died in a car crash, leaving her to parent her fourteen-year-old sister, Lydia, who lost half her leg in the accident. Jen had to put her dreams of becoming a professional beer brewer on hold, and so has a hideous job marketing incontinence pads and crocheted tampons. Her bosses are self-absorbed, workshy nightmares, and their brother, Robert, is her boyfriend. Her relationship with him is safe, predictable and exactly what she wants. The only nod to her passion is her microbrewery at the bottom of the garden.
However her sister and best friends want more for her, and when she accepts a marriage proposal from Robert, they take her off to Copenhagen for weekend minus spreadsheets and boredom. When a boat trip goes wrong, Jen ends up being fished out of a canal by a Scandi hunk called Yakob. A few hours in his company and she’d blindsided. And when he kisses her goodnight, she knows her world will never be the same again. Back in the UK, her real life starts to feel a little less than perfect. She’s being railroaded by Robert and his family into doing what they want, and her sister is rebelling against being coddled and smothered by her. As Jen starts to unravel, Yakob comes back into her life. Can she make the right choices for her life and not lose everyone closest to her?
I read this book over a couple of days, only putting it down when I had to sleep. It’s really well written, heartfelt, and deep. If you’re after steam then it’s behind closed doors, but the description of the ‘best kiss in the world’ is simply magical. The supporting characters are really well drawn, in particular Jen’s younger sister, Lydia. It helps that I have a Lydia in my life who is just as strong-willed as the one Pernille Hughes has created, so that struck a very personal chord. It was meticulously well-researched, and both Copenhagen and the process of brewing beer really came to life in my mind.
I loved this book and hope you do too!
Romantic and thought-provoking story well told
I can’t explain why I kept this book on my to be read list for so long. It really is my kind of story – well-written, romantic, intelligent heroine, foreign travel, good friends and some zanies to round out the crew of characters. Heroine Jen starts out in a blah existence, all planned, regimented and trying to negotiate the needs and desires of the people around her while suppressing her own dreams. I loved her transformation through the course of the story. Jen has an unusual love of brewing that connects her to her dead father: an unusual and fun departure from the usual hobby or vocation. And her Copenhagen adventure – so-o wildly strange yet romantic.
The perfect romance for this reader who loves a bit of adversity, self-discovery and close friend bonding mixed in with the heady building of a new love connection.
Thanks to publisher One More Chapter and NetGalley for providing a complimentary advance copy of the book; this is my voluntary and honest review.
I love coming across authors I have never read before. Pernille Huges pulled me in with Probably the Best Kiss in the World. This was a fun feel good rom com.
Jen is raising her little sister after a tragic accident took their parents and left her sister disabled. Her boyfriend Robert helps keep her stable. She is stuck in a rut. She doesn’t know what to do when he proposes.
Jen needs to find out what will make her happy. Is it the dependable Robert the one for her? This was a relatable fun rom com and I can’t wait to read more form this author.
What the heck is a brewster? Read Probably The Best Kiss In The World for an answer. It’s a story about the struggle to not be a control freak. Let it go! Let it go! Jen, the heroine, does the letting go of a job, a guy. Jen is a puzzling character. One on hand, I’m sympathetic about her situation and what she’s trying to do. But, on the other hand–actually, if I’m being honest, I want to use this hand to slap her. Jen has annoying tendencies to say the least. The brewing and beer part of the story of Jen’s life is really interesting and totally unique. Denmark is a spectacular setting, and I loved everything about it. As romcoms go, this one is in the middle. It’s a cute fun story with unique aspects. But, it’s not my favorite either, although I did enjoy it. I’m just saying I have read some I liked better, and I think it’s simply a matter of personal preference. Overall, I recommend this book for anyone who enjoys romcoms. Thanks to NetGalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.
This was a fun and humorous read about Jen, her incredibly boring and annoying boyfriend/fiance Robert, and Jen’s sister Lydia. I loved that Jen was a brewer because that’s something you never see in novels. I also loved the descriptions and imagery throughout the novel, but especially when they were in Denmark.
I can’t say that I loved this novel because of the basic premise of cheating (no matter how small), as well as, I felt like huge portions of the story dragged on more than necessary. And to be honest, Jen started annoying me to death!
Nevertheless, this is a good rom-com that I would recommend to fans of this genre.
Such an easy and lovely love story in a town that I want to visit no less and try everything, especially after reading this book.
The writing was great, the characters were interesting because they are different from what I usually read but love them nevertheless.
Will recommend this book for sure and I know what to read next time when I’m in the mood for a funny great book.
Favorite Quotes:
“This ring was my great-grandmother’s, on Mumsie’s side,” he explained, plucking it off her palm as she stared shell-shocked at him, “apparently, it hasn’t seen daylight since the undertakers took it off her finger and handed it to my granny … Oh. It’s too big.” Great-granny must have had salamis for fingers, the ring would have fallen freely off Jen’s thumb.
I should wash your mouth out with soap. This is a haven of romance and dreams. Shame on you. I’m going to fill this space with old romance novels to ward off your bad vibes.
Ava’s mother, though short, filled the entire width of the doorway. Her penchant for floral two-pieces did nothing to lessen this spatial illusion, whilst also making her look like a walking sofa. Her enormous blonde curls were immaculately dyed and set, and doubled the size of her head, which might have appeared comical, had it not perfectly matched the size of each of her huge boobs. Height aside, everything about her shouted Big Personality and she hadn’t even opened her mouth yet. Jen braced herself.
Right now she was a cocktail of emotions. The Molotov kind.
My Review:
I giggle-snorted with glee at Ms. Hughes generous servings of clever levity and highly amusing storylines, although I struggled more than a bit with her profoundly flawed, ridiculously inflexible, and greatly annoying main character or Jen, who really needed a kick in the arse. Jen was a pragmatic list maker and control freak whose issues and acquired traits created a considerable conflict for me, yet it was ultimately an enjoyable one with a satisfactory evolution.
Ms. Hughes’s characters were uniquely intriguing and enticingly quirky. I was highly entertained and engaged throughout by her witty and creative use of humorous insights and observations. Thankfully, Jen didn’t actually require a surgical procedure to fully dislodge her deeply wedged cranium from her posterior region, although she did require a considerable helping of misery and comeuppance to work it clear on her own.
Sweet, sassy, and inspiring!
Probably the Best Kiss in the World is a thoughtful, heartfelt tale about rediscovering one’s self, taking chances, following your dreams, and the special bond between sisters.
The writing is witty and light. The characters are quirky, dependable, and endearing. And the plot is a funny, engaging tale full of friendship, family, self-reflection, determination, independence, happiness, humorous mishaps, romantic moments, and an in-depth look into all the intricacies of craft beer making.
Overall, Probably the Best Kiss in the World is a passionate, delightfully heartwarming tale that reminds us that sometimes things happen for a reason and if we stay open-minded, and believe in ourselves anything is possible.
Right from the start, I was TOTALLY enjoying it. Two sisters left to fend for each other after the parents pass in particular tragedy, leaving one without use of their full self, and the other shouldering the weight of BOTH their worlds. Did either one ask for their new role? No…and in a rather funny twist…neither really needed to make the huge adjustments they did, but rather openly talk to one another and work together to help reach each other’s goals.
I liked the sister’s sense of independence and yet how they were solidly there for each other. I was laughing my butt off at the boyfriend’s display of manliness with the mini-blow torch (LOL!), and rolling at her sister’s reaction to their “news”. Various assorted noises of choking and/or spewing liquid out ones nose ACTUALLY HAPPENED when I learned of the next big organic, natural, good for me-you-and-the-earth trend Jen was to market. (Seriously…OMG!) The moment we learned what the title was all about, I was swooning! Really, there’s no way around it. It probably was THAT good…as was the “meet cute” moment for the ages – picture it…a dunk in a canal, fished out by a Copenhagen hottie, and realizing you’re not only dripping wet, but unfortunately…skirtless! *face palm* As the story continues, their lives begin to both twine AND unravel, for better and worse. It’s not everyday that you get to reset your future…but the amount of emotionally charged baggage that goes along with those choices can be difficult to carry.
All in all, I really loved this one. The characters, their struggles, the ups, the downs, the push, the pull…the MAGIC. Recommended for older teens through adults who love a little life, a little fun, and a touch of steam in their reading!
**ebook received for review; opinions are my own
*ARC provided by NetGalley in Exchange for an honest review*
Probably the Best Kiss in the World by Pernille Hughes has a wonderfully original story line, lively fun characters and is down right hysterically funny to boot. This is one book that will suck you in from page one. From beer puns, to crampons to “Mother Theresa of weak bladders” this book will have you laughing out loud. This is a definite 5+ star book and author Pernille Huges goes on my “favorite authors” list.
P..S. I couldn’t resist googling “crocheted tampon” and yes they really are a thing