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A review by cschaepe84
A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo
5.0
This book completely had me in my feels. I laughed, I cried, I had intense anxiety for Trix, and then was entirely consumed with the warn and fuzzies from the heartfelt ending that had me cheering her on. This is overall a story about forgiveness about who you were in the past, learning to love despite adversities, and redefining family, and building back up when all you are and know have been destroyed.
We start of with a lost, abandoned, and angry outcast, Trix, who basically has to exist in the fringes of society. It's all she knows, and although she doesn't like it, it's somehow safe, comfortable, secure. She gets by with her gift, which is stealing things without ever being caught, not by security cameras, and not by passerby. It was how her and her mother survived before her mother had walked out on her and left her scared and abandoned. She gets snitched on one day, and is arrest, but then her social worker places her with a family she never knew existed, and it is likewise with them that they never knew she existed. She tries to adjust to life with her new family, along with trying to build her trust, and learning to love despite suffering so much hardship and trauma. We go through flashbacks through her life, understanding what her mother was like, was her life was before that made Trix the way she is, and what her deepest hopes and fears are.
The characters here are wonderful, and really came to life. I loved the McCabe women. There's Mia, who makes delicious pies that can help emotionally cure what ails one. She is a fierce headstrong woman, who loves as hard as she fights for what she believes is right. Then there's Auntie, a hardened older woman who can read people's fortunes. She is hilarious and I love how she provides a lot of comic relief with her carefree, tough attitude who doesn't take crap from anybody, including Trix, but underneath it all, loves just as intensely. Then there's quiet, shy Ember, who's gift is that she can read other people's deepest hopes and fears with just a touch. It makes her withdrawn and shy around others, but she is just as strong willed and fierce as the other two women. I really enjoyed the cute romance between Jasper and Trix, who even though they seem to be opposites, deep down, they are both broken inside, but in a different way.
There were many moments throughout this story that sent me on a high-octane emotional roller coaster. Trix's feelings of distrust and abandonment, as well as her feelings of just being this outsider in a small town were so well captured. Throughout the story, everyone is put through the test of what their true intentions are with Trix, and she too grows and blooms, slowly becoming a part of the small town and finding herself and finding the love that she never knew people had for her all along. This is definitely a book that will stay with me for a long time.
We start of with a lost, abandoned, and angry outcast, Trix, who basically has to exist in the fringes of society. It's all she knows, and although she doesn't like it, it's somehow safe, comfortable, secure. She gets by with her gift, which is stealing things without ever being caught, not by security cameras, and not by passerby. It was how her and her mother survived before her mother had walked out on her and left her scared and abandoned. She gets snitched on one day, and is arrest, but then her social worker places her with a family she never knew existed, and it is likewise with them that they never knew she existed. She tries to adjust to life with her new family, along with trying to build her trust, and learning to love despite suffering so much hardship and trauma. We go through flashbacks through her life, understanding what her mother was like, was her life was before that made Trix the way she is, and what her deepest hopes and fears are.
The characters here are wonderful, and really came to life. I loved the McCabe women. There's Mia, who makes delicious pies that can help emotionally cure what ails one. She is a fierce headstrong woman, who loves as hard as she fights for what she believes is right. Then there's Auntie, a hardened older woman who can read people's fortunes. She is hilarious and I love how she provides a lot of comic relief with her carefree, tough attitude who doesn't take crap from anybody, including Trix, but underneath it all, loves just as intensely. Then there's quiet, shy Ember, who's gift is that she can read other people's deepest hopes and fears with just a touch. It makes her withdrawn and shy around others, but she is just as strong willed and fierce as the other two women. I really enjoyed the cute romance between Jasper and Trix, who even though they seem to be opposites, deep down, they are both broken inside, but in a different way.
There were many moments throughout this story that sent me on a high-octane emotional roller coaster. Trix's feelings of distrust and abandonment, as well as her feelings of just being this outsider in a small town were so well captured. Throughout the story, everyone is put through the test of what their true intentions are with Trix, and she too grows and blooms, slowly becoming a part of the small town and finding herself and finding the love that she never knew people had for her all along. This is definitely a book that will stay with me for a long time.