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A review by alissa417
The Wedding Veil by Kristy Woodson Harvey
5.0
When a book has the word “wedding” in its title, you brace yourself for fairy tale endings and happily ever afters. I will begrudgingly state there is some romance in this tale. But the true loves in the lives of these characters are depicted through the passion they display for their children and grandchildren, their legacies, their futures, their grand adventures yet to be had.
Kristy Woodson Harvey's ninth book, THE WEDDING VEIL, delivers powerful imagery of what it means for the most powerful women in your life to fight alongside you to, occasionally, force your hand and, always, with the goal you will make the right decision to forge your own path.
The characters in this story vividly come alive from the moment you crack open the prologue of this beauty; a young Edith Dresser, wearing roller skates in her mother’s boudoir, tries on her mother’s wedding veil, and is mesmerized by her mother’s tender prognostication for her future wedded bliss. Flashforward a few years, and Edith marries George Vanderbilt, who whisks her off on a European honeymoon before she nervously boards a train to a far-off new home, the Biltmore Estate. She doesn’t know what her future in the North Carolina mountains will hold, but she is ready to create a house united with her husband and the people of their new community.
The women in this story may all wear the same veil, handed down from generation to generation (until a mysterious Russian lady appears on the scene…), but they do not all experience happy marriages. What they each ultimately share is connection, a lust for life, and a fearlessness that precludes them from looking back on their pasts with regrets. They seize each moment they are handed and take adversity in stride as they press on towards their next quest.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and know with certainty Kristy Woodson Harvey, just like all the women she describes in THE WEDDING VEIL, is full of nothing but possibility - and I cannot wait to see what she serves up next.
Kristy Woodson Harvey's ninth book, THE WEDDING VEIL, delivers powerful imagery of what it means for the most powerful women in your life to fight alongside you to, occasionally, force your hand and, always, with the goal you will make the right decision to forge your own path.
The characters in this story vividly come alive from the moment you crack open the prologue of this beauty; a young Edith Dresser, wearing roller skates in her mother’s boudoir, tries on her mother’s wedding veil, and is mesmerized by her mother’s tender prognostication for her future wedded bliss. Flashforward a few years, and Edith marries George Vanderbilt, who whisks her off on a European honeymoon before she nervously boards a train to a far-off new home, the Biltmore Estate. She doesn’t know what her future in the North Carolina mountains will hold, but she is ready to create a house united with her husband and the people of their new community.
The women in this story may all wear the same veil, handed down from generation to generation (until a mysterious Russian lady appears on the scene…), but they do not all experience happy marriages. What they each ultimately share is connection, a lust for life, and a fearlessness that precludes them from looking back on their pasts with regrets. They seize each moment they are handed and take adversity in stride as they press on towards their next quest.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and know with certainty Kristy Woodson Harvey, just like all the women she describes in THE WEDDING VEIL, is full of nothing but possibility - and I cannot wait to see what she serves up next.