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Honestly, I haven’t felt like reading historical fiction lately, which is weird for me since I usually love it… especially WWII-era stories. With this book tour coming up, I kept delaying and thinking “oh I’ll just read one more book first because I just don’t feel like delving into history.” LET ME TELL YOU. I was stupid to wait. I binged this book and stayed up past midnight doing it (which is really late for me okay). I could not put it down.
The Keeper of Happy Endings beautifully weaves the lives of Soline Roussel, a bridal dressmaker from Paris, and Rory Grant, a woman trying to forge her own path amidst many familial expectations. Soline and Rory quickly find that their lives have many parallels and their relationship moves into a charming intergenerational friendship. Soline’s story is revealed through a dual timeline back into WWII-era Paris, and connects perfectly back to the present. I teared up about 3,028,184 times throughout this book and it was just a really perfect work of historical fiction. That last page…WHEW. I’M OUT OF MY HISTORICAL FICTION SLUMP. Now to go read Barbara’s backlist.
Thanks to Suzy Approved Book Tours and Barbara Davis for the copy of this book, bookmark, and door sign that will be very well used.
The Keeper of Happy Endings beautifully weaves the lives of Soline Roussel, a bridal dressmaker from Paris, and Rory Grant, a woman trying to forge her own path amidst many familial expectations. Soline and Rory quickly find that their lives have many parallels and their relationship moves into a charming intergenerational friendship. Soline’s story is revealed through a dual timeline back into WWII-era Paris, and connects perfectly back to the present. I teared up about 3,028,184 times throughout this book and it was just a really perfect work of historical fiction. That last page…WHEW. I’M OUT OF MY HISTORICAL FICTION SLUMP. Now to go read Barbara’s backlist.
Thanks to Suzy Approved Book Tours and Barbara Davis for the copy of this book, bookmark, and door sign that will be very well used.
“I wonder how you do it, that you can look at the world and manage to think there is a speck of fairness to it when all that the eye can see is garbage from here until forever.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes novels like no one else. In this noir novel set in the 1970s Dirty War era in Mexico, we meet two protagonists: Maite and Elvis.
Maite is bland. She’s getting “old” (past marriageable age), her mother clearly doesn’t love her as much as her sister, and she often finds herself making up lies to make her life seem more interesting to her co-workers. She lives for her romantic fantasies. Until her neighbor, Leonora, asks Maite to watch her cat for a few days... which turn into more when her neighbor goes missing. It changes everything.
Elvis is a criminal… but a naive criminal who loves rock ‘n’ roll, and ends up moving up in the ranks, in charge of finding out what happened to a girl named Leonora.
Maite and Elvis’s stories interweave together in a genius perfection. The grim noir tone was done so well, and I was cheering for both Maite and Elvis the whole time. The last section of the boom was so fast-paced and twisted that I couldn’t put it down! I also loved that Moreno-Garcia provided an Afterword with information about the Dirty War. There are spot-on song references throughout the whole book, and a Spotify playlist to go along with it!
Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes novels like no one else. In this noir novel set in the 1970s Dirty War era in Mexico, we meet two protagonists: Maite and Elvis.
Maite is bland. She’s getting “old” (past marriageable age), her mother clearly doesn’t love her as much as her sister, and she often finds herself making up lies to make her life seem more interesting to her co-workers. She lives for her romantic fantasies. Until her neighbor, Leonora, asks Maite to watch her cat for a few days... which turn into more when her neighbor goes missing. It changes everything.
Elvis is a criminal… but a naive criminal who loves rock ‘n’ roll, and ends up moving up in the ranks, in charge of finding out what happened to a girl named Leonora.
Maite and Elvis’s stories interweave together in a genius perfection. The grim noir tone was done so well, and I was cheering for both Maite and Elvis the whole time. The last section of the boom was so fast-paced and twisted that I couldn’t put it down! I also loved that Moreno-Garcia provided an Afterword with information about the Dirty War. There are spot-on song references throughout the whole book, and a Spotify playlist to go along with it!
