Author: Megan Cole

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’s Books (8th July 2010)

Pages: 432

ISBN: 978-0-00-736470-1

Three different girls, Madison, Simonetta and Sapphie coming from three very different backgrounds with more in common then they could ever guess.

Madison is wealthy and lives in New York, but she’s so over it, her Mum won’t let her party, won’t let her have botox and she’s not allowed to leave the city because her Step Father is sick.

Simonetta is a model who just wants her Mum off her back, she doesn’t want to give up modelling and return to in her words the ‘dull little village’.

Sapphire pure and simple, just wants to write songs and hang out in the London based record shop where she works.

All three recieve a dazzling invitation from the one and only billionaire music mogul, Brad Masters – the real question is… why?

After reading just the synopsis it immediatley reminded me of Mamma Mia! I can’t really reveal too much as to why but I think it’s enough to say that the story is based mainly around the gorgeous sounding private island and even though I’m not a huge fan of the sun I wanted to go there.

Out of the three girls I very quickly warmed to Sapphire, she seemed warm and caring with real dreams and a passion for music which was a stark contrast to particularly Maddison and to an extent Simonetta who seemed more interested in themselves.

I enjoyed how the three main characters interacted with each other although I would of like to have seen more of Simonetta. I felt really sorry for Sapphire in so many places but again it would reveal too much to say why.

Fortune has lots of twists in the plot, some of which you can see coming a mile off only to then be hit by a couple of big ones that I didn’t see coming which shine a whole new light on things.

Fortune was a fun, fast paced and enjoyable read, something lighthearted which you could easily take on holiday, sit by the pool or simply read in the garden with.

Thank you to Harper Collins for sending me a copy to review.