Book Review: "The Violets of March" by Sarah Jio
Summary from BN .com: In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ , and a one-way ticket to happily ever after.
Ten years later, the tide has turned on Emily's good fortune. So when her great-aunt Bee invites her to spend the month of March on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, Emily accepts, longing to be healed by the sea. Researching her next book, Emily discovers a red velvet diary, dated 1943, whose contents reveal startling connections to her own life.
After a string of mediocre reads, I was so thrilled with this book. It's been in my TBR pile for quite a while and I've been hearing many good things about it. Yet it was only now that I was able to get a chance to finally read it. I'm so glad that I did. I had no idea what I was in for. From the cover and the endorsements, I thought this was going to be a light women's fiction read with some dramatic moments. Inst...