Love Walked In

This book was great. The prose is beautiful and the characters are real and have you rooting for some, angry at others, and ache for others. The story is full of hope and heartache and forgiveness and love.

I wanted to give this four stars. It was really a cute story, but could have been shortened A LOT. I found there were just too many adjectives.Honestly, that's what bothered me.
But it's a really cute story, and I guess it would be good for others to read if they can just scroll past all the fluff.
I actually listened to this on CD and found when I faded away for a few minutes, I didn't need to rewind, because it really didn't matter.
But again, cute story.

What a delightful read! I was captivated by the author's style of writing. Marisa de los Santos tells the story about Cornelia, a young woman, perhaps unlucky in love, who becomes enmeshed in the life of a young girl, Clara, in need of some motherly love and attention. Clara is the daughter of Martin, the man who has (we think) won Cornelia's heart. And then Theo enters, the husband of Cornelia's sister, an old time friend, the one who gave Cornelia her first kiss. The author switches points of view from Cornelia to Clara evenly, and keeps us intrigued and guessing right to the end as to how it'll all turn out. Highly recommended.

This is kind of “chick lit” but I enjoyed it a surprising amount. Very readable and evocative. I thought it did a good job of portraying realistically complex relationships between complex people.