A review by sometimesjess
Fortune's Daughter by Alice Hoffman

3.0

I have been reading Alice Hoffman since I was a teenager. This is my seventh novel by her. Her worlds are reliably cozy. There is usually a hint of magic. Not only do her characters cast spells and read the future, but her moon's light is an entire mood unto itself. Hoffman has a knack for delineating a character's humor, temper, longing, through the waxing and waning of the surrounding nature. In her novels there is often a secret. There is an emptiness. There is a love. There is a loss. There are crickets.

Fortune's Daughter is absolutely what I signed up for when I decided to boat down the Alice Hoffman canal. I wanted something cosy, nostalgic, and magical. Given that her novels are some of my all time favorites, I must say, Fortune's Daughter doesn't especially stand out. It is an earlier book and she is clearly finding her footing as a writer. Still, the histories of Lila and Rae are intriguing enough that I listened and enjoyed untangling their respective webs of motherhood and loss.

I would rate this 2.5 stars rounded up to 3