A review by mollyringle
The Laws of Harmony by Judith R. Hendricks

3.0

As always, Judi Hendricks excels at evoking setting and mood with sensory details--food, plants, landscape, music, humble dwellings. Both sun-baked New Mexico and the moss-drenched Puget Sound island seemed totally real and were thus lovely to read about. Though I zipped along through the book with interest to see what happened with many of the various twists and turns, I felt ultimately a bit frustrated by the ending. I guess I'm more of a romance-novel fan after all, and had higher hopes for some of the men in her life, but they largely turned out unreliable and problematic. Realistic, perhaps--and perhaps what makes it a work of "women's fiction" instead of romance. For the lovely writing and the occasional bursts of humor, though, I'll be happy to keep reading Hendricks in future.