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A review by jill_rey
Glory Road by Lauren K. Denton
3.0
Jessie, Evan and Gus have a comfortable life on Glory Road. Nearly 10 years after her divorce, Jessie is content running her store, Twig, and spending her evenings with her daughter and mother. But then Jessie sees an all too familiar Jeep driving down Glory Road and her high school memories and the “old Jessie” she left behind come flooding back. At the same time, rich businessman Sumner Tate makes an unexpected stop at her shop and convinces her to enter the wedding business just in time for his daughter’s upcoming nuptials. Jessie’s comfort zone soon turns to chaos in this comfortably paced read.
Throughout this entire book I could see Jessie’s wheels spinning as she tried to make choices that were both best for her and for her family. Jessie learned relationships the hard way after marrying rich and living a “comfortable” life, so she’s decided to play by her own rules now.
The plot was comfortably paced and packed with development as my only hesitation arose in the author’s haphazard narration. From one chapter to the next the perspective was everchanging, flipping from Jessie to Gus and then back to Jessie for several sequential chapters. This changing point of view felt rather lazy as the book sought to condense the character development by conveniently offering the reader a view into the necessary mind to build up the story. Despite this, Glory Roadconveniently transports us to a dirt road community of neighbors in a small, southern town, packed with desserts, gardening tips and relationship plight.
*Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher. All opinions are my own.
Throughout this entire book I could see Jessie’s wheels spinning as she tried to make choices that were both best for her and for her family. Jessie learned relationships the hard way after marrying rich and living a “comfortable” life, so she’s decided to play by her own rules now.
The plot was comfortably paced and packed with development as my only hesitation arose in the author’s haphazard narration. From one chapter to the next the perspective was everchanging, flipping from Jessie to Gus and then back to Jessie for several sequential chapters. This changing point of view felt rather lazy as the book sought to condense the character development by conveniently offering the reader a view into the necessary mind to build up the story. Despite this, Glory Roadconveniently transports us to a dirt road community of neighbors in a small, southern town, packed with desserts, gardening tips and relationship plight.
*Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher. All opinions are my own.