As a major fan of Ashley Poston, you know I had to read The Someday Garden. Plus I love gardens as someone who has a mother who loves to garden! So I had to read this one and love! Keep reading this book review of The Someday Garden for my full thoughts.
Summary
When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for the summer—for a temporary job revitalizing the storied grounds at Lilymoor House—she doesn’t expect to fall in love.
But she does: With the beguiling land, the fragrant flowers, and the towering hedge maze. With the quirky staff and the enigmatic woman who owns the place.
And then, the door appears. Never in the same place twice, it leads her to a secret, and unfinished, garden with a frustrated thundercloud of a man trapped inside.
This mysterious garden is not the only sign that the future of Lilymoor is unstable: the foliage resists Sophie’s careful nurturing, vines threaten to strangle the hedges, and the manor’s owner has wild ideas about who will take over when she retires—including her inconveniently attractive nephew who is also there just for the summer.
Despite herself, Sophie has come to care for the residents of Lilymoor just as much as she cares for its grounds. With the help of one man on the outside of the secret garden, and one man on the inside, she might be the only person who can figure out exactly what Lilymoor needs to bloom once more.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
The Someday Garden took me a minute to get into, but once I was, I was locked in. I love how it’s about a gardener! Poston’s latest hits the ground running. I do wish we got a few more memories before the redacted event. But immediately every character has such heart. The Someday Garden is about giving our heart the time it needs to open up again. These feuds that fester, the losses which begin to ice over, and the way we can become too complacent. We can want to so quickly move on from the past, to put the failures behind us, and the remainders of who we used to be. But at the same time, sometimes we can become stuck, too scared to unearth this pain, and unable to speak.
It’s scary to speak the pain aloud. To give it a voice and hear it for it to become real all over again. At the same time it’s also scary to want something, to feel those stirrings of our heart, and open ourselves up to pain again. I’m not sure if The Someday Garden is my favorite, but it’s certainly going to leave an impact. I do love Poston’s character work and I’d love to read more of the side characters lives!
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