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Breakfast Tea & Bourbon
Solve this novel’s mystery to find where real treasure lay hidden!
Follow five best friends who sign up for a treasure hunt, rent a dilapidated RV, and head out on the search. This funny and quirky novel is a story within a story, because woven between the lines are clues to an actual treasure that was hidden for you to find.
Follow five best friends who sign up for a treasure hunt, rent a dilapidated RV, and head out on the search. This funny and quirky novel is a story within a story, because woven between the lines are clues to an actual treasure that was hidden for you to find.
- GenresFiction
208 pages, Hardcover
Published February 9, 2017
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About the author
Pete Bissonette
2 books16 followersFor over three decades Pete Bissonette has been helping millions get more from life while leading Learning Strategies, a personal development training and publishing company in Minneapolis.
In Breakfast Tea & Bourbon he shows a way to inner joy and happiness through an outer game that demands from us creativity, ingenuity, and resourcefulness. It’s a free-spirited novel, treasure hunt, and a road-trippers guide to the universe.
In Breakfast Tea & Bourbon he shows a way to inner joy and happiness through an outer game that demands from us creativity, ingenuity, and resourcefulness. It’s a free-spirited novel, treasure hunt, and a road-trippers guide to the universe.
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November 18, 2018
"Thinly Veiled Advertising"
This is basically a story of a group of friends going on a treasure hunt trying to find a treasure based on a list of clues, which mirrored in real life a treasure hunt with clues from the story. I don't think I could have ever found the treasure based on the clues, besides someone found it in August I believe. Also, throughout the book, it felt as though the author was trying to sell products made by his company Learning Strategies, or to encourage me to try his favorite brand of bourbon. I won this book in a giveaway.
This is basically a story of a group of friends going on a treasure hunt trying to find a treasure based on a list of clues, which mirrored in real life a treasure hunt with clues from the story. I don't think I could have ever found the treasure based on the clues, besides someone found it in August I believe. Also, throughout the book, it felt as though the author was trying to sell products made by his company Learning Strategies, or to encourage me to try his favorite brand of bourbon. I won this book in a giveaway.
February 10, 2017
Breakfast Tea and Bourbon is first an eminently readable, funny novel about friends.Friends you wish were yours. I planned to only read for a half hour and found myself glued to the book until I finished
it.
It’s also a treasure hunt, which if you follow the clues, could have you winning $50,000! And along the way you’ll join the friends on a spiritual journey that could just land you a bigger prize, the
road to inner happiness and well-being.
I received an advance review copy, and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
it.
It’s also a treasure hunt, which if you follow the clues, could have you winning $50,000! And along the way you’ll join the friends on a spiritual journey that could just land you a bigger prize, the
road to inner happiness and well-being.
I received an advance review copy, and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
May 18, 2017
This was a great story on friendships, exciting journeys, serendipity and treasure. I am not that great of a sleuth, so some of the hidden clues in the story are still, well, hidden... But I enjoyed the ride a great deal.
February 16, 2017
Funny, quirky, quick read. Worth buying the book even if you aren't into the treasure hunt.
February 19, 2017
“Breakfast, Tea & Bourbon” eBook was published in 2017 and was written by Pete Bissonette. This appears to be Mr. Bissonette’s first book.
I received an ARC of this novel through https://www.netgalley.com in return for a fair and honest review. I categorize this novel as ‘G’ (as far as I read). The primary character is Nels Ware who sets off with four friends in search of a hidden treasure. He has looked at the clues and thinks he knows the location. Off they go in a dilapidated RV to retrieve the $50,000 and have a lot of fun along the way.
I gave this book about 40 minutes of my time and reached the 17% point when I just had to call a ‘Rule of 50’ (https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/2015... ) on it. By that point they were on their way and had only accomplished drinking. Beyond two drink recipes where the primary ingredient was Bourbon, and a recipe for making olive spread, the story had really gone no where.
Usually by the 10% point at least you know the basic plot and the antagonists. This book had sounded interesting when I read the abstract. I was disappointed. Oh, and there are clues in the story that are supposed to lead you to find a real $50,000. The cover art is OK. I give this novel a 2 out of 5.
Further book reviews I have written can be accessed at https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/blog/.
I received an ARC of this novel through https://www.netgalley.com in return for a fair and honest review. I categorize this novel as ‘G’ (as far as I read). The primary character is Nels Ware who sets off with four friends in search of a hidden treasure. He has looked at the clues and thinks he knows the location. Off they go in a dilapidated RV to retrieve the $50,000 and have a lot of fun along the way.
I gave this book about 40 minutes of my time and reached the 17% point when I just had to call a ‘Rule of 50’ (https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/2015... ) on it. By that point they were on their way and had only accomplished drinking. Beyond two drink recipes where the primary ingredient was Bourbon, and a recipe for making olive spread, the story had really gone no where.
Usually by the 10% point at least you know the basic plot and the antagonists. This book had sounded interesting when I read the abstract. I was disappointed. Oh, and there are clues in the story that are supposed to lead you to find a real $50,000. The cover art is OK. I give this novel a 2 out of 5.
Further book reviews I have written can be accessed at https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com/blog/.
August 3, 2017
I'm not going to lie, I expected a fun, quirky summer read involving a group of friends going on a road trip to hunt down a treasure. Maybe an aged up literary edition of Without A Paddle.
What I got instead was, as another user on here had mentioned, a super long commercial for Learning Strategies, the author's "personal development training and publishing company." There is not a single chapter where the author does not try to sell you something off his website, whether it be a Paraliminal audio course or a class on Feng Shui. It eclipses what could have otherwise been a fun novel.
The plot circles on a group of five friends who only seemed concerned with alcohol and New Age self help teachings. Their ages and life scenarios are kept vague until stated otherwise. They do not go more then a day without a hard drink, even including recipes for cocktails. Normally, I'd be fine with this, but they keep dropping the names of the liquor companies as they do the author's own publishing company!
This isn't a novel. It's a glorified advertisement.
What I got instead was, as another user on here had mentioned, a super long commercial for Learning Strategies, the author's "personal development training and publishing company." There is not a single chapter where the author does not try to sell you something off his website, whether it be a Paraliminal audio course or a class on Feng Shui. It eclipses what could have otherwise been a fun novel.
The plot circles on a group of five friends who only seemed concerned with alcohol and New Age self help teachings. Their ages and life scenarios are kept vague until stated otherwise. They do not go more then a day without a hard drink, even including recipes for cocktails. Normally, I'd be fine with this, but they keep dropping the names of the liquor companies as they do the author's own publishing company!
This isn't a novel. It's a glorified advertisement.
April 2, 2017
This book follows five friends (Nelson, Tom, Sue, Lane and QB Earl) on a treasure hunt for $50,000. It starts with Nelson accidentally tumbling upon the treasure hunt and engaging his friends to follow the adventure with him. Nelson very quickly solved the puzzle, but his friends want to try to solve it as they follow their adventure in a rented RV.
Overall the book was an easy read. It was great to see how these individuals have been through some ups and downs together and have remained friends throughout the years. However, there were times when I had difficulty following a few sections as I couldn’t tell if it was a past memory or something happening in present time. I also felt the book was one long advertisement for Learning Strategies, the company the author works for.
Overall the book was an easy read. It was great to see how these individuals have been through some ups and downs together and have remained friends throughout the years. However, there were times when I had difficulty following a few sections as I couldn’t tell if it was a past memory or something happening in present time. I also felt the book was one long advertisement for Learning Strategies, the company the author works for.
December 31, 2016
Throughout 2016, I received a lot of books in the mail from publishing houses around the world. This was one of them, which I took to New York with me. Sadly, my thoughts on this book aren't good and even when I struggled to sleep while sharing a room with three other people on my trip, this couldn't hold my attention as much as I hoped it would. Instead, I was glad to get it over and done with and believe I left it in the hotel room, glad to be rid of it.
December 6, 2019
I have no idea what the clues even are. But at least it was an entertaining read!
January 3, 2018
This a great story with useful information in. While I didn't figure out where he had hidden his treasure, I did figure out the ending which was pretty spectacular.
April 20, 2017
I received an ARC of this book from goodreads. The story was only mildly interesting. And I didn't see a single clue that would have helped me find the hidden treasure. And it wasn't until after I received the book in the mail that I found out that I was ineligible to find the hidden treasure anyway, simply because I had received an ARC of the book.
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March 8, 2018Terrific, fun and beautiful story! And a lovely family won the "treasure" hidden in the pages of the book - Remarkable work, Pete Bissonette!
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