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reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2021-12-07 11:00 pm
reviews_and_ramblings) wrote2021-12-07 11:00 pm
Entry tags:
2020-2021 Rainbow Awards: Lesbian Historical and Historical Romance
And the Rainbow Award goes to:
Invisible, as Music by Caren J. Werlinger:
- This warm and gentle love story doesn’t have a lot of plot: sort-of-but-not-quite friends to lovers. The setting in upstate New York, I wish she had devoted just a little more time to describing. I love the finger lakes, but she never really made me feel like I was there. I had to fill in too much with my own imagination. But the characters were just about perfect. Lives full of delights and obstacles, interests and frustrations. I felt like I was reading about neighbors I could walk down the street and have coffee with. Her writing style flowed like water in a lazy river. Not destructive, not spectacular like a waterfall, but pleasant, like the water in a river that you canoe in on a summer afternoon. It’s an unusual love story, and deeply satisfying.
- I am glad I got to judge this amazing book! One of the most beautiful books I have read in recent memory. Set in the 80s it perfectly catches the mood and mores of this time. A master storyteller shows us how women had to struggle and survived – I so loved the merry band of strong women! Seeing the two main characters Henrietta and Ryn come into their own was a joy. A must read if there ever was one.
Runner Up:
The Beginning of Everything by Cara Malone
Invisible, as Music by Caren J. Werlinger:- This warm and gentle love story doesn’t have a lot of plot: sort-of-but-not-quite friends to lovers. The setting in upstate New York, I wish she had devoted just a little more time to describing. I love the finger lakes, but she never really made me feel like I was there. I had to fill in too much with my own imagination. But the characters were just about perfect. Lives full of delights and obstacles, interests and frustrations. I felt like I was reading about neighbors I could walk down the street and have coffee with. Her writing style flowed like water in a lazy river. Not destructive, not spectacular like a waterfall, but pleasant, like the water in a river that you canoe in on a summer afternoon. It’s an unusual love story, and deeply satisfying.
- I am glad I got to judge this amazing book! One of the most beautiful books I have read in recent memory. Set in the 80s it perfectly catches the mood and mores of this time. A master storyteller shows us how women had to struggle and survived – I so loved the merry band of strong women! Seeing the two main characters Henrietta and Ryn come into their own was a joy. A must read if there ever was one.
Runner Up:
The Beginning of Everything by Cara Malone