When I read the back cover of this book, I was enraptured. "OOOO," I thought. "This sounds interesting." And it was. However, it was not really what the description made it out to be.
Our main character, Millie, does play a 1920s-era guest during tours of an estate but do not expect much from that storyline...the actress part. In total, outside of a couple of incidents where the author describes Millie's costumes, I can remember only one "scene" involving Millie actually "acting" in this role. In fact, I believe we had more interaction with Ben in his security guard role than Millie in her reenactment roll. That was a bit disappointing. However, the book, as a whole, was good. I enjoyed the plot and the main characters had a quirky and cute relationship. I found the balance of the different storyline aspects nice (except for the part about expecting much more from the reenacting side.) If the back cover had been phrased just a little differently, or just a few more actual scenes of her as the reenactor (not just at the estate leaving work) had been included, I think this would have helped with my expectations going into the book. MINOR SPOILER ALERT: I was disappointed in one aspect of the romance. We discover that Millie has never been kissed before and when she does experience a kissing moment with our hero the lack of experience is blown off as not a choice she made to wait for the right guy but simply the lack of opportunity. In fact, Ben never even assumes it could be anything more than that. "I'm surprised you didn't have guys knocking down the door to be with you. But I'm glad you didn't have time for them. I'd have hated to fight them all off, but I would have." END OF SPOILER ALERT Spiritual Concern: The GOD aspect of this book is sooooo minor. I wouldn't say that it was an afterthought or anything but it is definitely not necessary to the story. The relationship that the characters of the story have with God is shallow at best. The fact that the characters are Christians is not what is driving anything in the story. My daughter would describe it this way: "BTWs, the characters are Christians." A Sparkle of Silver was a nice read. I would steer my unmarried, not-dating-because-I-am-waiting-on-the-right-guy daughter away from it not because of anything more than the intensity of the main characters relationship being just a little more than she needs to be reading about when she has chosen to refrain from that. With Love, The Mother
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October 2019
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