Back on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, No. 3)
by Debbie Macomber
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Book Reviews of Back on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, No. 3)
Book Review: Another Warm Tale From Blossom Street
Summary: 5 Stars
Although a number of knitting classes have taken place since the first book The Shop on Blossom Street, every so often there is a special group the author chooses to share with us. Lydia Geotz, cancer surviver and yarn shop owner, decides this special group will knit a prayer shawl. Each woman joins for her own reason, and the women are as varied as the reason they are in the group.
Colette Blake has rented out the small apartment above A Good Yarn and works in the flower shop next door. She is quiet and keeps to herself, but the others soon realize she is hiding from someone.
Susannah Nelson owns the flower shop next to Lydia, and decides to learn to knit. Although starring in her own book, Susannah's Garden, in this book she plays more of a supporting role to the other characters.
Back for another class is Alix Townsend who is in the midst of traumatic wedding plans. As much as she loves Jordan, Alix begins to wonder if she will be the right wife for the young minister.
While Lydia is excited about the class, she and Margaret are struggling with their mother's worsening dementia, and Margaret's daughter is involved in a horrible car-jacking.
As always, Debbie Macomber successfully allows the reader into each character's life in such a way as to make their situation believable. She provides just enough background for each character to keep us up-to-date on those we have already met, and introduces us to those who are new to Blossom Street.
The author said she had no intention of creating a series when she wrote the first book. However, avid readers of the Blossom Street novels can only hope for more stores to open up, keeping these wonderful stories and their interesting characters continuing for years to come.
Back on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, No. 3)
Knit Along with Debbie Macomber: Back on Blossom Street (Leisure Arts #4279)
Book Review: I Want to Open a Shop on Blossom Street!
Summary: 4 Stars
If ever there was a "happy place," Blossom Street is it. With its quaint shops in a renovated area of Seattle, the proprietors and their staff and customers lead lives both charming and charmed. Lydia Goetz is the anchor character whose knit shop provides the center of activity and is the place where unlikely friendships flourish. There's no problem too big someone in the knit group can't solve and though the endings can be somewhat simplistic, getting there is all the fun. Debbie Macomber writes with warmth and love as she grapples with the problems real-life women face. How nice it would be if we all had a shop on Blossom Street and friends like these who always provide the happy-ever-after ending?
Macomber's easy, conversational tone is most inviting and once you start this one, you'll soon forget you've just spent the whole day glued to her story. Susannah from her earlier book, Susannah's Garden, has returned to Seattle and opened a flower shop next door to Lydia. Soon, Susannah and her new employee, the recently widowed Colette Blake, have joined the latest knitting class. Alix Turner, also from past novels, decides she needs a knitting group to relieve the stress of planning her wedding to youth minister Jordan Turner.
It was Colette's story that I found the most enjoyable in this one. Her husband has been dead for a year so how will she explain she is newly-pregnant? And will her handsome boss go to jail after she blows the whistle on his Chinese "imports"? Also, Lydia's sister Margaret is feisty as ever and becomes obsessed with revenge when her teenage daughter Julia is carjacked and brutally injured. Old friends from former books return and two new and elderly ladies enter the picture to provide just the amount of wisdom needed by our Blossom Street ladies. There's a lovely wedding (or two), a family in crisis, and two patterns for prayer shawls knitters will enjoy.
The story ends with a hint that Lydia and Brad may be adopting a child soon, so I'm eagerly awaiting Summer on Blossom Street coming May 1, 2009.
Book Review: A Good Series
Summary: 4 Stars
For a person who doesn't usually like Macomber's books, I actually enjoy this series. I can't explain it either, since Macomber usually has whiney weak woman as her characters -- this series seems to show women of strength. Those that take charge and move on in their lives instead of waiting for men to guide them.
Susannah's Garden, the florist located next to a Good Yarn is where Colette Blake has gone to get over the death of her husband and the affair that she had had with her boss.
Once again the women of the story, Colette, Susannah, and Alix have come together in Lydia's knitting class to share their fears and hopes and traumas; much of which involves Colette's pregnancy and Alix's impending marriage to Jordan. Plus a trauma that hits Margaret's family and rocks them to the core.
This series of books is a good break from reality. I recommend this series over her mushy and redundant Cedar Cove series.
Book Review: Back on Blossom Street
Summary: 5 Stars
Back on Blossom Street (Blossom Street, No. 3)
After getting through the first few chapters it was difficult to put this book down. A wonderful variety of personalities which I felt you really got to know each one on a personal basis. With each chapter you get more involved with the women and the situations they are dealing with. This is one book you will thoroughly enjoy if you are hooked on Debbie Macomber books!
Book Review: Good Introduction to Reading for Me Again
Summary: 4 Stars
Spending most of time reading children's books to my children, this was a great way for me to read something more "grown up". I joined a summer book program at my local library and this fulfilled the "Book in a Series" category. This was my first Debbie Macomber book, and I was pleasantly hooked. Characters were engaging, storylines were interesting and her use of "A Good Yarn" location made it very warm and inviting. It certainly read at a fast pace. I'm looking forward to reading more of Ms. Macomber's books.