The Magic of Found Objects - Review

𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 by Maddie Dawson

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“...grief is something you can get used to. You shrink it down, put it in your pocket, like a phone number scrawled on a piece of paper, and maybe after a while, you just leave it in your drawer and don’t carry it with you at all.”

I downloaded this book with Kindle First over a year ago and read it when I was more than halfway through writing 𝘈 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥. So it’s been a while since I read this one…bear with me as I try to recall my emotional state back then (🤪). It was such a nice break to read this book, things were getting intense and emotional in the story I was writing, and I needed to step away from that.

What I didn’t expect was that this book was more about a mother-daughter relationship and self-realization than it was about a romance. I was looking to read a romance at the time, as I usually do. But I was delighted by Phronsie’s story, her struggle to connect, her willingness to accept defeat by marrying her best friend even though she knew she wouldn’t be happy. It’s a story about finding one’s happiness and discovering your truth. I love stories like this. Ones that remind me that life isn’t about accepting one path because that’s the one that has been laid out. And that love can be found, you just have to open yourself up to it.