I absolutely loved Poston’s newest. It had everything my little romantic heart likes to see in a romance novel. Great chemistry, people actually talking to each other and not avoiding things, great setting, great love scenes, etc. I absolutely loved The Dead Romantics and this one is up there with that for me.
The Someday Garden follows thirty plus year old Sophie Drear. Sophie’s a horticulturist and spending her summer on loan from her regular house helping to renovate the gardens at Lilymoor House in Maine. Sophie returns to Lilymoor to fulfill a promise to someone she loves, but also finds herself being drawn in against her will to the people who work and live there, and with the gardens themselves. When Sophie comes across a blue door that is not on any of her maps she enters it to find a man asleep there. She thinks maybe she’s mistaken about the garden, but realizes it keeps moving around the grounds. And Sophie finds herself doing what she can to help the man who is trapped inside the garden that refuses to release him.
I loved the character of Sophie. I felt for her and what brought her to Lilymoor House and why she feels so closed off from people. I loved that we get someone who knows what is behind their issues and though at first shys away from discussing it, finally starts to open up to the other workers there and becomes friends. I loved we get a potential triangle early on that I was actively rooting against one of the men. And that the love triangle actually made sense and didn’t derail the book.
The setting of Lilymoor House had me wishing that the house, gardens, etc. were all real. It felt real. It was a great book to read when you are sad and grieving and also to help you open back up again to enjoy the life/world around you.
The ending was super sweet but also sad, but it fit with the entire book in my mind.
