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At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
by Heather Webber
First, I got this as an free ARC from NetGalley. Thank you very much!
Secondly, What a beautiful, beautiful book! How do I even begin to formulate my feelings and opinions into words?
It was a slow, calm and slice of life story. I felt like it was a little too magical to be simply magical realism but that might just be my experience reading fantasy as most of the magical elements was explained as non-magical toward the end. Maybe I'm just more prone to believing it's a magic story?
It.. was a slightly sad book. Bittersweet? It started sad and got better. There are two POV, Maggie and Ava and both are struggling with grief and loss. Maggie over her mother who disappeared 20 years ago and her letting the love of her life go. And Ava whose recent ex-boyfriend died. To add to it, Maggie's father is acting strange and Ava has a long history of medical issues.
But it was a story very much about happy endings, of hope, of finding your place in the world, and accepting who you are. I even got teary eyed at the ending there.
I greatly enjoyed how it was written, how the author places us in this tiny little place somewhere in America and let's us, the reader, get to know the town and the people who live there. Because the story wasn't just about Maggie and Ava. It was about a bird who kept escaping. It was about romances that sprouted at coffee shops and small town gossip. And it was all so incredibly cozy and warm.
Secondly, What a beautiful, beautiful book! How do I even begin to formulate my feelings and opinions into words?
It was a slow, calm and slice of life story. I felt like it was a little too magical to be simply magical realism but that might just be my experience reading fantasy as most of the magical elements was explained as non-magical toward the end. Maybe I'm just more prone to believing it's a magic story?
It.. was a slightly sad book. Bittersweet? It started sad and got better. There are two POV, Maggie and Ava and both are struggling with grief and loss. Maggie over her mother who disappeared 20 years ago and her letting the love of her life go. And Ava whose recent ex-boyfriend died. To add to it, Maggie's father is acting strange and Ava has a long history of medical issues.
But it was a story very much about happy endings, of hope, of finding your place in the world, and accepting who you are. I even got teary eyed at the ending there.
I greatly enjoyed how it was written, how the author places us in this tiny little place somewhere in America and let's us, the reader, get to know the town and the people who live there. Because the story wasn't just about Maggie and Ava. It was about a bird who kept escaping. It was about romances that sprouted at coffee shops and small town gossip. And it was all so incredibly cozy and warm.