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Mary, Everything (The Flapper Covenant, #1)
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A book that takes us home.
The older we get, the more we miss home. In its best form, home is a special place, but to Courtney, it is far, far away, in time. She doesn’t belong in the time era she’s living in, and she knows it, but she’s trapped, and running out of that most precious commodity, time itself. Luckily, there are others, friends from home, who know this, and ultimately they bring her to where she belongs.
The author clearly knows the time period of the 1920’s well, too well, some might say! One is left to wonder, not so much about the settings and props, extremely credible by themselves, but the characters. They seem so well-suited to be living there, and are so real, it’s as if the author actually knew them. Did she? Possibly in a way that defies understanding? I don’t know, but what I do know is that the book reads as a highly literary piece of art, but it’s also a fantastic adventure into a world of this fabulous author’s creation! And in the end it fulfills that basic need, which we all share. It takes us to a place where we are loved, a place where we deserve to be, a place we know and cherish. Home.
SCD
The older we get, the more we miss home. In its best form, home is a special place, but to Courtney, it is far, far away, in time. She doesn’t belong in the time era she’s living in, and she knows it, but she’s trapped, and running out of that most precious commodity, time itself. Luckily, there are others, friends from home, who know this, and ultimately they bring her to where she belongs.
The author clearly knows the time period of the 1920’s well, too well, some might say! One is left to wonder, not so much about the settings and props, extremely credible by themselves, but the characters. They seem so well-suited to be living there, and are so real, it’s as if the author actually knew them. Did she? Possibly in a way that defies understanding? I don’t know, but what I do know is that the book reads as a highly literary piece of art, but it’s also a fantastic adventure into a world of this fabulous author’s creation! And in the end it fulfills that basic need, which we all share. It takes us to a place where we are loved, a place where we deserve to be, a place we know and cherish. Home.
SCD
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Finished Reading
May 22, 2022
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