Publish Date: May 20, 2008
Format: Audio
Discs: 5
ISBN:
Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favourite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother’s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night…Until she finds her closet harbouring Della Lee Baker, a local waitress who is one part nemesis-and two parts fairy godmother. With Della Lee’s tough love, Josey’s narrow existence quickly expands. She even bonds with Chole Finely, a young woman who is hounded by books that inexplicably appear when she needs them – and who has a close connection to Josey’s longtime crush. Soon Josey is living in a world where the colour red has startling powers, and passion can make eggs fry in their cartons. And that’s just for starters.
My Thoughts
I really enjoyed this book, it was a really fun light-hearted story of one girl and her journey of self discovery. I found all the characters enchanting and the magical touch of the story very charming. I would have to say that Chole was my favourite - I wish books would just appear to me. I would be saving a boat load of money. There was just something so sweet and innocent about her that spoke to me. Josey, you just felt sad for. And Della Lee was there to bring them all together. Very entertaining and leaves you with that warm fuzzy feeling.
I found the end was predicable, but but not realistic. It ended the way I figured it would, but everything was just to neat and tidy and in it's place for me. I like a little mystery in an ending and a little left to the imagination.
This is the first book I've read by Sarah Addison Allen, although I've had her first novel Garden Spells on my bookshelf for years - it's about time it comes off for a read.
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The reviews made here are my personal opinion. I’m not being paid to review any of these books. I am by no means a professional book reviewer or editor. I do this for the love of books.
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