The Lost Art Of Reverie
This book was the perfect first book of a 3 book series.
The main character of this book was a woman named Katie. She was a dreamer – like most of us – dreaming of a beautiful, happy, glorious future. She dreamed of the kind of future that was filled with delicious food where she was the head chef of a thriving restaurant. She dreamed of love and laughter and community…
And then she somehow ended up an HR manager of a big company in a city, where the managers ended up ruining her life when she took them to court after multiple employees came forward with sexual assault stories.
After court, she clearly could never go back to work for this company… All of this happening at the same time of her dear grandmother passing…
Katie received an inheritance from her grandmother – including her home that Katie stayed at every summer growing up, and a hefty chunk of money. And so Katie did the only thing that seemed logical with the implosion of her life – she up and moved to her grandmother’s home, to take the much needed time to re-evaluate her life and consider her next steps.
Back in the comforts of her favourite place in the world, she began to come alive again; she began to remember who she was – who she used to be before the city changed her. And her lost art of reverie drifted back to her slowly, as she settled into her childhood summer home, that helped her to settle back into herself and who she was always meant to be.
This book was filled with real life moments of how anxiety feels, with realistic portrayals of panic attacks and the aftermath. It was filled with real life scenarios of how cruel and evil and manipulative people can be.
But it was also filled with many moments of love – as Katie falls in love with her childhood crush who was also her first kiss.
It was filled with how wonderful it is to have a beautiful Christian community; with women of all walks of life coming together to not judge one another, but to support and love and just be there for one another.
This book awoke a hunger for me to have what the little town of Aveline offers its people, and so naturally, I just HAD to keep reading the series…
Which leads us to book number 2: A Jar Full Of Light