The Love Note

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POLITANO, JOANNA DAVIDSON

THE LOVE NOTE

A forgotten letter. A secret love. A vast estate.

Can one determined woman put the pieces together?

Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1865 when she discoveres a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor.

Everyone at Crestwicke has feelings -- mostly negative ones -- about the man who wrote the letter, but he seems to have disappeared. With plenty of enticing clues but few answers, Willa's search becomes even more complicated when she misplaces the letter and it passes from person to person in the house, each finding a thrilling or disheartening message in its words.

Laced with mysteries large and small, this romantic Victorian-era tale of love lost, love deferred, and love found is sure to delight.

My Review:

This book has left me gobsmacked speechless so I'm struggling to find words to convey my impressions. Here they are in my tizzy-stated randomness:

Not what I expected going into the read. The story unfolded in surprising ways with stunning results.

The idea of a lost love letter is brilliant! And the way it is intricately woven into the plot, creating twists and turns I didn't see coming....well, brilliantly brilliant!!! (and yes, I realize that's redundant but that's what this book has done to me.) Because...at one point, towards the end, that letter took on new meaning for me that left me in an astonished stupor because....whoa...you need to read the book!

Such fabulously complicated characters! The kind a reader feels an instant emotional connection to -- whether that be good or bad or somewhere in between. And the way Willa's arrival becomes the catalyst for change for them all.

One of my favourite secondary characters is delightfully befuddled Aunt Maisie whose sharp wit and astute insight defy her Crazy Maisie persona.

"I collect words so I won't lose them all into the black hole of feeblemindedness. When words are all you have, it suddenly makes you want to keep as many as you can so you can use them when you have need." (p 99)

Which brings me to the divine inspirational themes layered into this story. Especially Willa's spiritual growth as she tries to figure out what her future holds...or should hold.

"Why can't I ever seem to say the right thing? My words...they're still wrong, Aunt Maisie."

"Because they're yours." She hobbled close and rested a crooked hand on my arm. "Make your heart a deep well of the Almighty by saturating yourself in his presence, and your words will come out drenched in him no matter what your say. I promise you, no matter how many brilliant things you have to say, he has better ones." ( p 205-206)

The Love Note is a celebration of words and how they build our stories -- and His Story -- and the truth at the heart of them all.

GIVEAWAY OPPORTUNITY:

This giveaway is paperback or ebook copy -- winner's choice

If you would like a chance to win a copy of The Love Note, leave a comment below or email me at kavluvstoreadATyahooDOTca. If you add an email to your comment, remember to use AT and DOT instead of @ and . in order to protect yourself from spammers. If you enter the draw via email, please add the title to the subject line so it's easy to spot your entry. Draw will be held and winners announced on Saturday April 17  2021. Offer open to International Readers. Good luck!