Firefly Lane

As you may recall from an earlier post, Cheryl and I went to hear Kristin Hannah speak last month at Village Books about her book Firefly Lane.

I finished the book Saturday. I really enjoyed it. Kristin Hannah is a wonderful story teller. Her characters are real, her setting(s) well described. She is a Pacific Northwest (PNW) author who uses the PNW almost as a character in her books. I like that.

I do want to put out there that it took me a few chapters to really become engaged in the book. However, once I was I couldn't put it down. I was hooked! I read half of it on Saturday, finishing it while sitting on the back patio in the sun.

If you read the synopsis of the book you will find that it is a story of friendship - Two girls who become women through out the course of the book who navigate the waters of life with one another by their sides. Of course there are ups and downs in the friendship, but they stay best friends forever...Until a "shocking betrayal tears them apart." I will say that I was thankful that Kristin Hannah didn't use the "obvious" betrayal - you know the one that we expect, yet don't want to read. That made me happy, yet the betrayal was horrible...

Anyway. Read this book. I recommend it (and you will have groovy music playing through your head the whole time...Dancing Queen...Oh ya!)

Kristin Hannah

Jerrie & I met Kristin Hannah last night & I think we might all be BFF now ... jealous yet? She is doing a tour to promote her latest book, "Firefly Lane." She did a short reading from that last night & then signed books. She was very funny & down-to-earth. There were great questions from the audience & she really took the time to answer them honestly, which was nice. If you haven't read any of her books you should really give them a try. She lives in & writes about the Pacific NW which is a nice change from the usual and great for those of us who live up here.

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Jerrie, Kristin & me

Kristing signing "Firefly Lane"
"Firefly Lane" ... read it! ☺