The Keeper of Happy Endings

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Barbara Davis describes different kinds of grief very vividly in the story. How did her descriptions make you feel for the characters? Can you relate to them? The characters, for me, were so completely likable. And there is a lot of dialogue which makes reading the book go faster for me. Every heart has a signature, a unique echo that ripples out into the world. And every echo has a match. When those echoes connect, they become so attuned that even if they be separated, they continue to seek one another.”

The Keeper of Happy Endings | C.A. Gray Review of The Keeper of Happy Endings | C.A. Gray

Over distance, over time, Whatever trials might come, May the echoes of these two young hearts Be forever joined as one.”I’ve lived a good many years, and seen a good many things, and one thing I know to be true is that we are all scarred, all broken in our own way. Some of us may break more quietly than others, but break we all do, when this world dishes out its worst.” When Rory meets Soline to return the items she found, an unexpected and inexplicable bond begins to develop between the two of them. Were they destined to meet? The Keeper of Happy Endings – What I Liked Rory, an art gallery owner wannabe, stumbles upon Soline's old shop and wants to open her gallery in the perfect location. Little bits were left unsaid....we didn't know what happened to the Kennedy gown nor THE dress that Soline carried across continents...this left me a bit flat, especially that last, since it featured heavily. I'd like to think Rory could maybe utilise it one day.....

The Keeper of Happy Endings - SuperSummary

the truth is incapable of real harm. It is we who do harm, when we refuse to face what is real, because it’s uncomfortable or inconvenient.” Soline Roussel is a young woman from Paris, descended from a long line of women in her family who have an exclusive bridal shop in Paris. The characters are well developed. There are subtle hints to see beyond the obvious and delve deeper into the character’s mind. That’s clever writing.Time, you see, is the enemy, a trap of our own making. The past is lost forever, a wasteland of all that could have been and never was, while the future stretches endlessly before us, always an hourglass’s worth of sand beyond our reach. Today, then, is what we have left—the here and the now—to make our wishes, and to fight for the life we want.” Two women - Soline and Rory - one that owned a bridal salon who made magical wedding gowns that guaranteed happy endings and one who was starting an art gallery. but it just didn't do much for me. Too much telling, not enough showing. Or sewing, for that matter, given that it was supposed to be a central theme. We didn't really see the "dress witch" using her magic or making her charms. We could have seen the stories of some of the brides she'd helped, or have desperate Parisian women queuing outside her door during the war, clutching worn out dresses, handkerchiefs or even rags for her to embroider charms into to keep their loved ones safe. We didn't even experience her making one of her classic wedding gowns. Neither did we see Rory working on the textile art which apparently means so much to her.

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Dreams are like waves . . . You have to wait for the right one to come along, the one that has your name on it . . . This dream has your name all over it.” In a Nutshell: An interesting premise and pretty good execution. I loved the story but the extremely slow beginning and the extremely contrived ending took away some of my enjoyment. Certain things that occurred I guessed were going to be the case but I enjoyed it nonetheless and a couple of parts had me decidedly sniffy....Soline: “We were the Roussels, a family of dressmakers—bridal designers to be precise—but with a particular specialty. The bride who wears a Roussel gown on her wedding day is guaranteed a happy ending.”