With all the reconciliations and redemptions, the story had several opportunities to be too sugary but the writing kept it from falling into the treacly sentimentality. Like most romance books, this one has its happy ever after, for Julia and for Emily. It’s about Julia, who bakes her cakes for a lost love and not the most recognizable loss either. It’s about the Win Coffey defying his family’s orders to give his people a second chance. It’s about Emily’s mom’s second chance lived through Emily. Even though Emily’s mom was one of Julia’s high school tormenters, Julia recognizes loneliness when she sees it and it radiates from Emily. Her neighbor, Julia Winterson, befriends Emily. What Emily comes to realize was that she was her mother’s chance at redemption. But people’s recollections of Emily’s mom don’t fit with the social do gooder that her mom was before she died. Her mother was involved in something scandalous involving the Coffey family, so scandalous that the townspeople’s long memories have pegged Emily as an outcast before she even has time to set foot in Mullaby. Her bedroom wallpaper changes, frequently. Her grandfather is almost eight feet tall. As I spent almost 10 hours at La Guardia due to weather complications, at least I had a good book to read.Įmily Benedict was brought to live with her grandfather in a small town of Mullaby, North Carolina. I’ve wanted to read you for a long time and when this book was hand delivered to me when I was in NY, I felt like I had no excuses but to read it. Jane B Reviews / Book Reviews Magic / redemption / second chances 11 Comments MaREVIEW: The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
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