TITLE: The Glass Kitchen
CHARACTERS: Portia & Gabriel
AUTHOR: Linda Francis Lee
PUBLICATION DATE: 06/17/14
ORDER LINKS: Amazon
BOOK SYNOPSIS:
With the glass kitchen, Linda Francis Lee has served up a novel that is about the courage it takes to follow your heart and be yourself. A true recipe for life.
Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run the Glass Kitchen restaurant her grandmother built decades ago. But after a string of betrayals and the loss of her legacy, Portia is determined to start a new life with her sisters in Manhattan . . . and never cook again. But when she moves into a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side, she meets twelve-year-old Ariel and her widowed father Gabriel, a man with his hands full trying to raise two daughters on his own. Soon, a promise made to her sisters forces Portia back into a world of magical food and swirling emotions, where she must confront everything she has been running from. What seems so simple on the surface is anything but when long-held secrets are revealed, rivalries exposed, and the promise of new love stirs to life like chocolate mixing with cream. The Glass Kitchen is a delicious novel, a tempestuous story of a woman washed up on the shores of Manhattan who discovers that a kitchen—like an island—can be a refuge, if only she has the courage to give in to the pull of love, the power of forgiveness, and accept the complications of what it means to be family.
REVIEW:
4.5 Hearts I really enjoyed this story. There is something that pulls you in from page one. While contemporary the special talent Portia has adds a delightful spin. Portia is such a fascinating character. She is someone you want to be friends will. The feelings of guilt, love and longing is palpable. Gabriel is so hard-edged but yet something is so sweet about him. They are so perfectly matched.
The character of Ariel is such a complement to this story. I really enjoyed how the story was told from the viewpoints of Portia and Ariel and not Gabriel. It really added something to the story this way. Ariel is such a smart little girl who is trying so hard not to be invisible to everyone that she sometimes becomes lost to herself.
I honestly can’t imagine someone not enjoying this story. The writing is so well done and it is so relatable to women. It is just a feel good story perfect for a summer read.
Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
4 Hearts
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