A Sea of Unspoken Things by Adrienne Young 4/5 Stars
A few weeks out from reading this one, it feels like a beach read to me. I did enjoy reading it and love the atmosphere of the whole book, but it is a forgettable one. I had to read the synopsis to begin to remember what the book was about.

Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten 3/5 Stars
This is not one that I would have picked up on my own but it was a book club book and I wanted to see if I could understand all the fuss about Ina. I don’t dislike her- I just haven’t had an interest in her type of cooking or watched her t.v. show so haven’t gotten into her. The book itself is a fine read. It’s interesting how she has no formal kitchen or cooking background yet she bought and made successful a food store and had great success with cookbooks and a cooking show. It’s written well and an engrossing story of her life so far.

The Garden by Nick Newman 2/5 Stars
I understand the appeal to write or explore this idea and world but I think it would have been better suited as a short story. I kept waiting for something big and interesting to happen but only fairly small, not terribly exciting changes happened. I think the way that Evelyn and Lily live together and their isolated life are interesting but not interesting enough for an entire novel to be about them. I like that we will never really know what happened with their father and their mother’s reasoning behind closing the house off and what really happened between them, it ties in with Lily and Evelyn’s forever unlimited knowledge of it. I really liked the ending to this book. This feels like a really big world that’s been left unexplored. There are a lot of questions and a lot of things that are unclear about what happened outside of Lily and Evelyn’s garden. And I think it would be neat to get short stories from this world and time period. I like the timelessness feel.
I was given a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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