It was like she lived for her family, putting aside her need and want. I loved how driven and fiercely loyal she is to her family, how much she sacrificed for them and never complained about it or showed displeasure even though she felt worn and unhappy. She is kind, compassionate, lovely, brave, selfless, determined and strong-willed. All Characters are realistic and relatable. Both Eve and Lolly’s businesses are interesting, quirky, and brilliant. Lolly’s friend, Eve, and her goat farm in Vashon island added its own character. It was lovely to read importance of setting both to story and characters.
I loved the beautiful description of Magnolia and Lolly’s family diner. It perfectly balances Lolly’s life journey and helps us understand her feeling and why not being with Rory is her biggest life regret. There are intermittent past chapters that show Lolly’s relationship with her one and only love of life, Rory, and what happened between them. The story is steady to slow paced written in first person narrative from Lolly’s perspective.
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It was interesting to see what alternate life she will visit and what she will learn from it, if it will change anything in her present life or help her move on, or how she will figure out how to make lemonade from her lemons of life. Help comes from her eccentric 80 yrs old aunt in form of gift of three magical lemon drops that can make her live the life of her dreams for a day. She feel stuck in life and wants to move on but doesn’t know how. She is content with life but when she finds her journal from her teen years with list of life goals, she is thrown into a pit of regrets and misery of ‘what ifs’. She had to let go of her dreams to fulfill her promise to her mother to take responsibility of her younger sister and keep the family legacy by running a Danish family diner with her father. Lolly had plans, dreams, possible future with love of her life but life went pear-shaped when her mother died a decade ago. I loved the concept of the story and plot is interesting. The story is about regrets, life choices, burden of responsibility, sacrifices, family, love, second chance, and life journey.
In The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie is Lolly Blanchard gets three chances to visit an alternate reality of life if she could have made different decisions or if things happened in a different way. But what if we are actually given a chance to see the other side of the what ifs and live alternare life for a day with better life choice? There is always something we are not happy about and the cycle of wishing to change it starts its circle. There is always regrets in life, lots of ‘what ifs’ and things that we wish we could change or go back in life and do it over differently so we have our dreams come true, eliminate those regrets but decisions and choices in favor of dream or against, always costs in one way or another way. What if her mom hadn’t passed away? What if she had opened her own restaurant in England? What if she hadn’t broken up with the only man she’s ever loved? Surprising and empowering, each experience helps Lolly let go of her regrets and realize the key to transforming her life lies not in redoing her past but in having the courage to embrace her present. Now, a decade later, she dutifully whips up the diner’s famous lemon meringue pies each morning while still pining for all she’s lost.Īs Lolly’s thirty-third birthday approaches, her quirky great-aunt gives her a mysterious gift–three lemon drops, each of which allows her to live a single day in a life that might have been hers. Ten years ago, after her mother’s tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant in order to keep her family’s struggling Seattle diner afloat and care for her younger sister and grieving father. Lolly Blanchard’s life only seems to give her lemons. from the bestselling author of The Enlightenment of Bees.
This post contains affiliate links SynopsisĪn uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to live the life she didn’t choose. Disclaimer – Many thanks to Berkley for eARC via NetGalley.
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