One Lavender Ribbon

Es uno de los libros más hermosos que he leído. Empezando por las cartas de William y terminando con las ideas expresadas por Will acerca de lo que aprendió de su abuelo y de Adrienne acerca del amor y de la vida, el libro bien vale la pena leerlo.

Good but predictable. Great for a summer read! It definitely drew emotions toward the end, and I like that it seemed to come full circle. Would recommend.

I love this book ! Everyone should read it and see what love looks like. You have opened my eyes about the war and what went on in the mind's of the man who where there.Thanks for your book. Ilene

What a beautiful story of love and its strength and power to endure, inspire and move people to live life to its fullest!

While I enjoyed the story of new beginnings, it got a bit repetitive after awhile. I waited for Adrienne to explain why she was upset but it didn't happen so the book didn't feel quite finished to me.

Enjoyable read. Time old story never gets old. Reminds us to take the time to listen to our elders. Nicely done.

I received One Lavender Ribbon through the Kindle First program. One Lavender Ribbon is the story of Adrienne, a 28 year old divorcee from a cardiologist, who takes her divorce settlement and buys a fixer upper on the water in Florida. She encounters a bundle of WWII era love letters in the attic, and she becomes obsessed with unraveling the age old romance.She meets Pops, writer of the letters, and his handsome grandson, Will, and they quickly develop a friendship as she adds some excitement to their monotonous lives. Adrienne wants nothing more than to reunite Will with a lost love. Readers will quickly see that she is repairing the hole in Pop's heart as a panacea for healing the hole in her own. Then Adrienne and Will become attracted to each other, and the book suddenly has two potential romances unfolding.I liked the prose. It was smooth, polished, and easy going. This is the kind of book you take to the beach. The language was fairly clean, and the book had it's sensual moments, too, but was clean. There were no graphic sexual details. However, I didn't think Adrienne and Will were romance material. She was picture perfect and annoyed me by being too nosy about other people's private matters. Will was handsome and charming, but his constant anger, mistakes, and brooding coupled with his constant lame apologies fell flat. The reader never really finds out what his "issues" truly are...oh, near the end he elaborates how it hurt him that his charity loving parents hurt him by going to Africa his senior year, but I think something more had to be wrong for him to be such a stick in the mud control freak. There's no doubting he and Adrienne had chemistry, but it isn't the successful kind. I also questioned a 28 year old woman getting a divorce settlement big enough to cover a house and not working. Her ex-husband must have been quite a bit older than her to fund her life of leisure. I also didn't think that Pop's previous romance and it's end was fleshed out enough. The letters and the locals point to something dark and complicated happening, but I felt the author's explanation of his lost love was too glossed over. I know, I'm nit-picking.All that aside, I'm giving the book four stars because it was a smooth, enjoyable read. I think this author shows promise, and I will definitely consider future books.

Finish Time: 4 nights. Another good Kindle First read, love this program!When Adrienne Carter leaves Chicago, after what sounded like a messy and awful divorce, she heads for the beach in Florida. She finds a run-down place on the beach and begins to take on a renovation using the proceeds from said divorce. She stumbles upon a hidden box of love letters dating back to WWII. Her curiosity is peaked and she begins to track down the writers and recipients.After a surprisingly short search (both online and in person), she finds William Bryant, the WWII hero, and tracks down the sister of “Gracie”, the recipient of of the letters, Sara. I say surprisingly short as I would have thought it would be a bit harder, but in the age of Google and the internet, I guess you never know! (I’m always surprised by the stories where people find their birth parents just by posting it on Facebook!) But it probably helped the story along as it jumped right into getting to know all the characters and all the action!I actually would have liked more letters (there were a few scattered throughout) and to hear more of the dialogue about the war – to increase my knowledge of the WWII time period (after all that is why I love historical fiction!) It didn’t take away from the story, but could have added so much more (in my opinion.) As Adrienne learns more about William, a strange relationship develops with his grandson, Will Bryant. The relationship between Will and Adrienne was frustrating to say the least. Will is very protective of his grandfather, which is sweet, but anytime Adrienne goes out on a limb (whether I agreed with it or not), he jumped to the worst conclusion possible, got mad at Adrienne, then came groveling back when she was right (a process repeated many times throughout the book.)It was frustrating, yet very familiar, made me aware of something I “may” have the tendency to do every once in a while.But back to the story, it’s full of love, a bit of mystery, a few secrets, and a lot of relationship building and self discovery. Overall sweet, good, enjoyable read, with a bit of history thrown in. Worth your time – check it out!

I really enjoyed this book, after at first thinking it wasn't for me and nearly gave up reading it, but as I read further I wanted to know what would happen to "pops" and especially Adrienne. It was lovely to have a proper ending as so many books leave things a bit unfinished. Would recommend this book to anyone from 12 to 92, it is easy reading and is a lovely book for anyone who has lived through the war or who knows nothing about it.

Really loved how this book unfolded into a beautiful storyline. If only we all had a Pops in our family or amongst our friends how lovely life would be. The first book by this author for me but now looking for another.

From the first line I found I couldn't put this story down. A woman who had a hard marriage and divorce could put others needs for fixing regrets before her own. Nothing makes me sob more than reading about an older veteran sobbing had me sobbing with him. Lots of happy moments in this and times where you want to shake one of the characters. I really loved this novel and would highly recommend it to others.

One Lavender RibbonA lovely, gentle story about unrequited love between a gawky 14 year old girl and a 17 year old soldier and the woman who buys an old house and finds a box of love letters. Beautifully written. Beautifully drawn characters. If you want to de-stress and read something which isn't full of sex and violence, then I would recommend this book. Lovely.

This was such a lovely read, of heartache, going back years, and of the truth that changed a lifetime of letters, letters you may think, yes before emails and texts ! All during the second world war , written by who? Read on to get through to truth, a good mystery as well as a love story.