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Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love by Kim Fay

4 reviews

lyshbish's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Absolutely precious book. It's short, it's sweet, it's hopeful. It made me hungry! I find myself absolutely delighted by a love story that is about the love between friends rather than romantic love. "The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be."
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twistykris's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I simply adored this book. I read it in less than 24 hours and was absolutely enthralled by the soothing, comforting, and often funny letters these two women wrote each other. Lots of talks of food, friendship, and adventures. A wonderful palate cleanser and a quick, darling read that makes me want to cook and write letters to dear friends.
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bubblegirl858's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This book captured me from the first page and kept me reading, laughing, and crying throughout the whole book. I cannot adequately express how much I enjoyed this book. It was a very short read, but it was able to so beautifully capture the lives of two women with real problems, living their lives to the fullest through food and connections. The author did such an amazing job developing their friendship through correspondence. I can understand how reading a story in letter form is not everyone's cup of tea, but I enjoyed hearing the character's voices through the words that they wrote and exploring the culinary world with them through their letters to each other. If you don't finish this book wanting to move to a new city to start a garden, live off the land, and become an expert in a specific regional cooking style, then you have read it wrong. This book is about hope, joy, and the ability of people to change, and grow. It is about connecting to yourself, and to others, and finding new connections through food, which in my opinion is the best kind of book.  This was set in the '60s with the main characters being two white women, and written in the early 2000s by a white woman, so there is one use of problematic language, descriptions of violent and tragic times in American history, and it exhibits very old-fashioned views on unwed women who are pregnant, that the main characters do not sympathize with, but just as a trigger warning for anyone reading. 
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kristinecircenis's review

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emotional funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Thank you Netgalley and Penguin Group Putnam for the digital ARC to review.

A delightful story of friendship that blooms during the 1960s through letters. Immy and Joans bond grows, like so many modern friendships, through food. I really enjoyed watching their friendship deepen even in times of uncertainty and sadness.

CW: discussions of abortion, medical content, death
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