The Shade under the Mango Tree by Evy Journey
Welcome back to the Between Two Worlds Book Tour with iReadBookTours. Today I'll share my thoughts on book5, The Shade Under the Mango Tree. This book was published in November 2020 and has received the Gold Medal, Contemporary Fiction, 2021 Global Book Awards (formerly New York City Book Awards) and has been a finalist for the 2021 SPR (Self Publishing Review) Book Awards, Multicultural Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards, and 2022 Wishing Shelf Book Awards
Book Description:
Luna hungers for adventure. Lucien has chosen a solitary professional life. She’s breaking away from her sheltered existence while he’s a widely-traveled but disillusioned young architect.
Drawn together by an intimate journal that he found abandoned in a café, these two strangers begin to shed the shackles of their painful pasts.
Lucien opens himself up to Luna. But she isn’t ready. She travels far, into a world steeped in ancient culture and the ravages of a deadly history. Can she survive unscathed? And will she be the soulmate he has been searching for?
Book 5 in the series Between Two Worlds is an epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.
Luna hungers for adventure. Lucien has chosen a solitary professional life. She’s breaking away from her sheltered existence while he’s a widely-traveled but disillusioned young architect.
Drawn together by an intimate journal that he found abandoned in a café, these two strangers begin to shed the shackles of their painful pasts.
Lucien opens himself up to Luna. But she isn’t ready. She travels far, into a world steeped in ancient culture and the ravages of a deadly history. Can she survive unscathed? And will she be the soulmate he has been searching for?
Book 5 in the series Between Two Worlds is an epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.
Review:
Wow! This book will take you in a journey with Luna as she suffers a loss in her family, gets her heart broken, and decides her path in life. The story is told in sections and also in journal form. I loved the journal entries because it is a unique way to write. This book is a little out of my normal genre but I was interested from the first chapter. Luna’s journal is found at a cafe by Lucien. He initially turns it in to the cafe employees but when no one claims it the next day he feels compelled to keep it safe and find the owner. This story also covers a horrible time in a non- US culture that I was not aware of. I’m glad I was able to learn about this time from this book as the only way we can not repeat our past is to learn about it and from it. One of the blurbs said this book was for fans of Nicholas Sparks and I could not agree more.
Meet the Author:
Evy Journey writes. Stories. Blogs (three sites). Cross-genre novels. She’s also a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse (an ambler).
Evy studied psychology (M.A., University of Hawaii; Ph.D. University of Illinois) initially to help her understand herself and Dostoevsky. Now, she spins tales about multicultural characters dealing with problems and issues of contemporary life. She believes in love and its many faces.
Just as she has crossed genres in writing fiction, she has also crossed cultures, having lived and traveled in various cities in different countries. Find her thoughts on travel, art, and food at Artsy Rambler.
She has one ungranted wish: To live in Paris where art is everywhere and people have honed aimless roaming to an art form. She visits and stays a few months when she can.
connect with the author: website ~ blog ~ facebook ~ pinterest ~ bookbub ~ goodreads
Evy Journey writes. Stories. Blogs (three sites). Cross-genre novels. She’s also a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse (an ambler).
Evy studied psychology (M.A., University of Hawaii; Ph.D. University of Illinois) initially to help her understand herself and Dostoevsky. Now, she spins tales about multicultural characters dealing with problems and issues of contemporary life. She believes in love and its many faces.
Just as she has crossed genres in writing fiction, she has also crossed cultures, having lived and traveled in various cities in different countries. Find her thoughts on travel, art, and food at Artsy Rambler.
She has one ungranted wish: To live in Paris where art is everywhere and people have honed aimless roaming to an art form. She visits and stays a few months when she can.
connect with the author: website ~ blog ~ facebook ~ pinterest ~ bookbub ~ goodreads
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looks like a great book
ReplyDeleteI would love to read this.
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