I’ll Be Your Blue Sky
by Marisa De Los Santos
4 stars
Would you ever decide to not get married based on a conversation with a total stranger? This is what happens when Clare Hobbes runs into a mysterious elderly woman named Edith Herron, at the hotel in Virginia where she is to be married that afternoon and after talking with Edith decides to call off the wedding. Three weeks later, Clare learns that Edith has died and that she has inherited Edith’s old house called Blue Sky House along the Delaware coast. The story moves between Clare in present time and Edith’s difficult life in the 1950’s. Clare is surprised to find that the house has been vacant for years, but still has pictures of Edith and her beloved, long-dead husband Joseph on the walls. As she is exploring the house, Clare finds some boxes and mysterious ledgers and begins to research the history of this old inn learning of a decades-old dark secret. I felt this book was about making connections, looking at loss and about the family we have. Some parts of this book were sad and hard to read. This was #3 in the series (Love Walked In) but you don’t have to read them in order. I didn’t! Recommend.
Read-alikes
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
Inheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
