This story far exceeded my expectation of a women's fiction/romance!!! The skillful interface of characters dealing with past issues, present grief, and yet moving forward into future contentment is both touching and inspirational. While the main characters were younger, the supporting characters of senior citizens merged a depth of relationships in a most engaging way.
Although the main topics were quite heavy, the author's use of small town Southern lifestyles, humor, and vocabulary lightened the angst to make the story almost unbearably sweet.
The resolutions of the entwined stories were not at all expected, and towards the end I sobbed (reallly sobbed) at how all the characters made peace with their respective realities.
Just a wonderful, wonderful story. The author's remarks in her acknowledgements at the end were much appreciated, as well as her choices of geographical settings, which were accurately depicted.
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Love this Slow Burn
The Magnolia Inn is only the second book I’ve ready by Carolyn Brown. I absolutely love her writing style, but this one was a little on the slow side for me. What drew me to this particular read over all her others was the cover. It is absolutely gorgeous and just popped out at me.Jolene Broussard was gifted one-half of The Magnolia Inn by her Aunt Sugar and Uncle Jasper which she couldn’t be more excited about. Unfortunately the other half was gifted to her horrible cousin, Ruben, who promptly put his half up for sale not wanting anything to do with the nostalgic Inn.Enter Tucker Malone. He is looking for a project to keep him busy while his Saturday nights are held for him to drown himself in the bottom of a bottle to forget the pain of his wife’s unexpected death two years prior. The Magnolia Inn was just what he needed, in more ways than one.Jolene isn’t having it though. She was raised by an alcoholic mother, dated alcoholic men and is done taking care of the likes of people who drink themselves stupid to bury their feelings. I loved how strong this character was. She is full of life and is just what Tucker needed. He spent a lot of time talking to and grieving his dead wife and not seeing what was right in front of him until it was almost too late. She breathed life back into this broken man while doing nothing other than being herself.While I did like this story, like I said, it was a really slow burn, but I highly recommend.
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