SOAP AND GLORY THE HAPPILY EVER LATHER BOOK CLUB

Soap and Glory have recently teamed up with My Kinda Book to create their
#happilyeverlather book club. The brand is giving away books and beauty goodies every month with a different title being featured each time. I was lucky enough to win a competition on Instagram this month. I won 4 signed books, book club merchandise including my very own Happily Ever Lather membership card and discussion booklet, plus lots of Soap and Glory goodies to share with my friends and get other people involved in the book club.
This month's book is Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell which I have never got around to reading but have heard so many good things about. Other books on their past reading list have been; Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and messed up Life can be by Gemma Cairney and A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard.

I could talk about Soap and Glory all day, they are a brand I never get bored of and there is always something new to try. The Soap and Glory products included were their new dry shampoo, The Rushower which I LOVE and am completely converted to! Their Love at First Blush Blusher which is my go-to everyday blush! Their Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Gloss in Nude Star and a few different scents of their body lotions, my favourite being Smoothie Star Body Lotion. This really is my idea of heaven! Bathing and bookish things go together so well. I really wish this was a monthly subscription box where you get a book and a product each month, I would totally sign up! You can find out more about the Book Club here. Look out for more book club competitions on their Instagram feed. I'm off to enjoy my book in the bath!

What's your favourite Soap and Glory product? Will you be joining the #happilyeverlather book club?

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BOOK REVIEW - ELEANOR & PARK BY RAINBOW ROWELL

Eleanor & Park By Rainbow Rowell

Published - 12/04/12 Publisher - Orion

Pages - 336 Genre - Young Adult/Romance

Synopsis - Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.
Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book - he thinks he's made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor.
Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose.

My Thoughts - This book is such a cute, romantic 80’s love story. It follows the lives of two teenagers, switching character from chapter to chapter. It took me a little while to warm up to the characters, but once they opened up more to each other I just wanted to read more. Everybody has a first love, and this is the story of theirs as opposites attract. I like that the story was simple and most of the chapters were on the school bus or at each other’s houses, which I’m sure many people could relate to. It made me feel quite nostalgic, I felt all the emotions of a teenage again, their lives aren’t perfect, but they had each other. I didn’t give this book five stars because of the ending, I felt it was a little rushed but bittersweet at the same time. It finished and I needed more, I look forward to reading more from Rainbow Rowell in the future.

My Rating - 4/5
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