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A review by fantasticallyfabled
Rootbound by Tarah DeWitt
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Tait and Henry's relationship is so wholesome and healthy—from strangers to friends to lovers. I loved everything about them. Tait is creative, strong, and independent. Henry is patient, loyal, and gentile. Both carry baggage they’ve needed to put down for much too long.
But this book is so much more than Tait and Henry’s romance. This book is about facing your fears, finding your footing, breaking through the limitations you’ve imposed on yourself, opening your heart, untangling your roots, and finally letting yourself grow.
“When you buy a new plant, you often have to cut the roots when it comes out of the pot. That way, when you put it into the ground, the roots will reach outward, and it will thrive. If you left it in that plastic pot, in that compacted shape it’s in, the roots would grow around and around in a tangled mass until it’d choke the life from itself. It would become too rootbound to grow.”
Being an ex-wedding photographer, I was confident I would connect with Tait. But I had no idea Rootbound would affect me the way it did. Tait’s struggle to process her divorce while coming to terms with all the misconceptions she had about her family spoke to me and reminded me of things I had long forgotten. I wish I had a Henry while going through my “Rootbound” phase of life.
Once again, Tarah DeWitt made me fall in love, cracked my heart in two, put it back together, and made me gasp, cry, and laugh with delight. It’s been several weeks since I finished Rootbound, and I still think about it daily. Sometimes, it makes me cry; sometimes, it makes me laugh; sometimes, it makes me blush, but it always makes me happy.
Bravo.
PS - That is definitely how you make an exit.