Crossroads
by Annie Rose Welch
Romance
Blurb:
How do you get there, darlin’? Well, na’, you start by taking
Brighten Place. Follow that road all the way down to Marigny Street.
After you travel a little distance you’ll come to an old Red Dirt Road,
and that road will take you even further, to Lotus Blossom Lane, but
you’ve already been that way. Na’ you’re exactly where you should be,
darlin’. You’ve arrived at The Crossroads of your life.
Raphael Rose is dying of pneumonia. As he waits on the waning clock of mortality to chime, he has a story to share. One of star-crossed lovers he has never lost hope for.
Two doors down, Madam Catalina has her own story – a shocking past, a love of a lifetime left undone.
Locked behind the doors of Charity Hospital during Hurricane Evangeline, the tangling of souls has unraveled and left each of them at the crossroads of their life. And in the end, whichever road they choose will lead them home.
Review:
In
many ways each of the books of the Saving
Angels series is about life. Not just being or staying alive, but actually living during the time you have. Every
story has been about appreciating every moment you're given, for standing up
and fighting for what you believe in and for what's right, and for taking hold
of the opportunities that come your way. Every story in the series has been
about love - finding the love of your lifetime, learning that love takes work,
realizing and understanding that with love comes risk, and believing that
you're truly stronger with love in your life than without it.
In
Crossroads
we're shown these truths with the story of Madame Catalina and her angel
Raphael. It's about them finding their love, overcoming obstacles and being
overcome, losing their love, feeling unworthy of reclaiming their love, living
life to the best of their abilities and finally (truly) learning the ultimate
lesson: that love especially when it's true, is the most powerful force on
earth.
We're
also brought back to Eve and Gabriel in Crossroads, or perhaps it's more
accurate to say that Eve and Gabriel are brought back to each other. I already
fell in love with these two (in Marigny Street, book 1 of the
series) and seeing them together again, watching them struggle to find a solid
footing with one another again was wonderful. Seeing them learn from the
mistakes and choices that Raphael and Catalina made in their youth was
beautiful. Neither Eve nor Gabriel are the same people they were in Marigny
Street; the course of Eve's life changed after the dream was over and
Gabriel's life was altered by his experiences as well. While changed, they are in
many ways stronger than they were the last time we saw them together and I
think because of their differences they are even more suited for one another.
There
are so many threads being brought together in Crossroads - ones that I
didn't even realize were left hanging in all the previous stories and books.
With each of the previous Saving Angels
books I thought I was catching all the important bits, but one thing that Crossroads
has shown me is that Annie Rose Welch
is far more subtle with nuance than I realized and that she's a master of
weaving an intricate tale, especially this one with it’s abundance of
incredibly delicate threads. Now I’m poised to read the final book, the
final story of the series… And I can’t imagine what’s going to come next.
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