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A review by parklandmom
A Jar Full of Light by Rae Walsh
5.0
Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 stars)
Read: June 2024
Format: Kindle e-Book
Challenge Prompt: CNL’s #49 of 50 - “a book with a second chance romance”
Book #57 of 2024: How can a book can bring such familiarity, comfort, ease, and peace while being so different from book 1 in various ways? Book 1 (also 5 stars) is about false accusations, the need for grounding and simplicity, cooking/baking, resistance to marriage, and renovations. This novel is about trauma, secrets, various forms of art, poetry, protection, friendship, and a main character with Asperger’s. Yet both stories had the common bonds of friendship, community, and family—both blood and not.
While I understood the meaning of the beautiful title in book 1 early on, I didn’t put all the pieces together for this title until nearly the end. I love a meaningful and creative title that makes sense and does the novel justice.
I highlighted some especially meaningful passages. I think I teared up 3-4 times for various reasons. I love the Aveline community and the people. They have their issues and problems, as we all do, but they unite and love each other with all their imperfections.
Rae Walsh (Rachel Ford Cavendish) has Women’s Fiction down to a fine art. (Pardon the pun!). This series needs to be talked about more and read by more people. She always brings everything back around to God’s love, mercy, and wisdom to make beauty out of the broken and transform that which is dark and ugly into light and goodness.
Read: June 2024
Format: Kindle e-Book
Challenge Prompt: CNL’s #49 of 50 - “a book with a second chance romance”
Book #57 of 2024: How can a book can bring such familiarity, comfort, ease, and peace while being so different from book 1 in various ways? Book 1 (also 5 stars) is about false accusations, the need for grounding and simplicity, cooking/baking, resistance to marriage, and renovations. This novel is about trauma, secrets, various forms of art, poetry, protection, friendship, and a main character with Asperger’s. Yet both stories had the common bonds of friendship, community, and family—both blood and not.
While I understood the meaning of the beautiful title in book 1 early on, I didn’t put all the pieces together for this title until nearly the end. I love a meaningful and creative title that makes sense and does the novel justice.
I highlighted some especially meaningful passages. I think I teared up 3-4 times for various reasons. I love the Aveline community and the people. They have their issues and problems, as we all do, but they unite and love each other with all their imperfections.
Rae Walsh (Rachel Ford Cavendish) has Women’s Fiction down to a fine art. (Pardon the pun!). This series needs to be talked about more and read by more people. She always brings everything back around to God’s love, mercy, and wisdom to make beauty out of the broken and transform that which is dark and ugly into light and goodness.