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A review by evergreensandbookishthings
The Marriage Sabbatical by Lian Dolan
4.0
Thank you, Partner @bibliolifestyle @williammorrowbooks for the gifted copy of The Marriage Sabbatical!
This book came at the perfect time when I needed a light, engaging, and fun read. Yes, it explores the idea of taking a break from a marriage and opening it for a short time, which could end up being a heavy topic. Instead, the tone was escapist - as if Elin Hilderbrand and Eat Pray Love had a book baby, complete with excellent sense of place and sumptuous writing about food. I now desperately want to visit Santa Fe and I appreciated the pretty spot-on Pacific Northwest descriptions of my neck of the woods. I do feel as if this novel will mostly resonate with the Gen X crowd, very niche music/pop culture references and midlife situations - ailing parents, menopause, empty nest, etc. So your mileage may vary.
This is the first novel I have read by Dolan and I definitely will pick up another, perhaps for summer reading!
This book came at the perfect time when I needed a light, engaging, and fun read. Yes, it explores the idea of taking a break from a marriage and opening it for a short time, which could end up being a heavy topic. Instead, the tone was escapist - as if Elin Hilderbrand and Eat Pray Love had a book baby, complete with excellent sense of place and sumptuous writing about food. I now desperately want to visit Santa Fe and I appreciated the pretty spot-on Pacific Northwest descriptions of my neck of the woods. I do feel as if this novel will mostly resonate with the Gen X crowd, very niche music/pop culture references and midlife situations - ailing parents, menopause, empty nest, etc. So your mileage may vary.
This is the first novel I have read by Dolan and I definitely will pick up another, perhaps for summer reading!