Monday, October 28, 2024

My Thoughts on The Color of Home by Kit Tosello

 

About:

The life she's designing may not be the life she's meant to live

Bay Area interior designer to the rich and pretentious, Audrey Needham is already on thin ice with her impossible-to-please boss when her great-aunt Daisy asks for support as her husband descends into Alzheimer's. Now Audrey is risking the career she worked hard to build as she returns to Charity Falls, Oregon.

Her feelings toward the idyllic small town are . . . complicated. While she has many good memories of her childhood summers there, Charity Falls is also the place her father was killed in a tragic fire at the Sugar Pine Inn thirteen years ago.

Despite Audrey's intent to avoid emotional entanglement, something should be done about the deteriorating inn. A local girl with an incarcerated father needs a friend. And handsome local do-gooder Cade Carter is coloring Audrey all shades of uncertain. The pull of home is hard to resist.

My Thoughts:

Change is inevitable. In this story, we get Aunt Daisy and her niece Audrey’s perspective on changes happening in their lives. The kind that just sneaks up on you, or in Aunt Daisy’s words, “We just don’t realize they’re so close at hand until they’re on our doorstep, knocking. It’s simply our turn.”

Daisy needs help. Her husband, Dean, has Alzheimer’s, and she just can’t take care of him alone. So, she decides it will be in their best interest to sell their longtime home and move into an assisted living place. But she has much to go through, cleaning and sprucing up, so she reaches out to Aubrey.

Aubrey never really wanted to go back to the town where her father had died. But Daisy needs her, and there is no reason to stay as her job status is up in the air. In this time of the unknown, she goes to help. Only she doesn’t realize the impact the townspeople will have on her. Nor the impact she will have on them.

This was a small hometown read, with no suspense, there is a romance thread, but that is not really what I took from the story. It is really about change, that is what gripped me as I turned the pages. Whether it is moving, a new job, a baby, an accident, or sickness, we really have no way around it. This really impacted me for personal reasons, and I liked the author’s light humor and turn of phrase in the matter of facts of life. This is by no means a heavy story, just one of helping one another through life’s ups and downs.

I was provided a copy of this novel from Revell Publishers through Interviews & Reviews. I was not required to post a positive review, and all views and opinions are my own.


About the Author:

Kit Tosello is an award-winning writer of small-town contemporary fiction with a big heart, as well as inspirational essays and devotionals. With her eye trained on the beauty hiding in plain sight all around us, she arranges words with tenderness, humor, and hope. When not writing, Kit can be found in the loose-tea shop she operates with her husband, exploring the great Pacific Northwest, or enjoying the "great indoors"--bookstores and libraries. Always with a matcha latte in hand. Learn more at KitTosello.com.

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