The Keeper of Happy Endings
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Two women - Soline and Rory - one that owned a bridal salon who made magical wedding gowns that guaranteed happy endings and one who was starting an art gallery. To sum up, The Keeper of Happy Endings is a story of hope, love, second chances, family, relationships, and happy endings.
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis, Paperback
The characters, for me, were so completely likable. And there is a lot of dialogue which makes reading the book go faster for me. For generations, my family has been part of a kind of conte de fée—a fairy tale. Though perhaps fairy tale is the wrong term. Fairy tales have happy endings. Fables are meant as cautionary tales, lessons intended to teach us about life and its consequences. And over the years, the Roussels have learned much about consequences. There” What a wonderful story full of fate, serendipity and a little bit of magic. I loved it start to finish. I thought this was just such a great read. In reality, this would have been a ReRead for me, except that there is a bit of a twist at the end and now that I know what that twist is, I’m not sure I would reread it.Anson’s father paid to have the nurses lie to Soline, and arranged for the child to be adopted. That child turned out to be a girl, and is Rory’s mother, making Soline Rory’s grandmother. I’ve lived a good many years, and seen a good many things, and one thing I know to be true is that we are all scarred, all broken in our own way. Some of us may break more quietly than others, but break we all do, when this world dishes out its worst.”
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Decades later although she is established in her own bridal shop in Boston, her heart has not moved on. After an incident that means the shop is almost destroyed she allows it to sit there empty refusing to sell it. A young woman Rory Grant who has ambitions to own an art gallery is interested in leasing the I’ve since read what is her eighth novel, The Echo Of Old Books, and I must say that she didn’t let me down. The story is told from the perspectives of Soline and Rory. Soline tells her story in the present tense, and Rory tells her story in the past tense. The chapters are labeled with either Soline or Rory, the date, and the location. At the beginning of the prologue and chapters devoted to Soline, the author includes a quote that ties in beautifully with the subject matter. Davis provides the translation for French words and phrases used in the story. The author created a great mix of believable characters, whether they are prone to positive or negative behaviors. The use of sensory language makes readers feel as if they have traveled into the same place as the characters and are experiencing everything along with them. Davis captures readers’ attention at the beginning and compels them to keep reading. There are plenty of lines to savor. "I’ve come to believe we create our own curses and carry them through life because we’ve been told it’s our lot. We’re taught to relive our mothers’ heartaches, to accept their sufferings as our own, and pass them on to the next generation, again and again."Ms. Davis has outdone herself with this book…historical fiction, love, heartaches, forgiveness, secrets kept for years, but most of all hope in all of it. All this changes in the blink of an eye when Soline loses everything she holds dear due to World War ll. My thanks to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC of “The Keeper of Happy Endings”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book.
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