Lavender Dreaming-
For most of her life Violet James has been half in love with a man she's never met. The people she knows best are those she meets only in her dreams of a 1908 Texas community called Lavender. Less real are those in her own time, 1940's London, where she serves as a scullery maid in an aristocratic household where she was abandoned as an infant shortly after birth. But when the London house is bombed during the blitz, she finds herself facing the man from her dreams, Warne Chapman, in long ago Lavender. (Fifth book in the Lavender, Texas series. The Lavender books follow the stories of members of the same family in the time-locked community, but each book tells a stand-alone story) Amazon link
I had mixed feelings about this book. This is the first of the series that I have read and the blurb on Amazon was true. You can read it as a standalone story. This is Book 5 in the series and I really didn't have that much difficulty in reading it. I really liked the people in the story, well especially those from Lavender, Texas at least. Warne and Violet were such good characters and the interaction between them was so science fiction. Violet had such a bad childhood, so unwanted that it made you ache for her. Between trying to survive her life at the estate as a lowly kitchen maid, her disability and that she was unwanted, was kind of depressing at times. I kept thinking, "Can't this girl every catch a break?" Warne's upbringing was so much the opposite. Loved, wanted and respected. They have been friends since early childhood. Warne was Violet's ONLY friend. And since people couldn't see Violet in Warne's time, they thought at times he was odd, talking to an imaginary friend.
There were a lot of mysteries that come out, later in the book, when it comes to Violet's connection to Lavender, Texas. Plenty of twists and turns in the story.
The ending? Kind of bittersweet. I'm kind of happy for Violet when it comes to romance, so I'm somewhat satisfied with the ending. Just so people know, since most of the time they are in two different times, they are separated, the story isn't strong on romance as most of us would imagine. But the friendship you could feel. But I'm also kind of bummed with what she lost at the end.
Since this is a series, maybe it might be resolved along with another story.
I kind of got lost for a bit when it came to the explanation when it came to how some of the time-walking went on; but I don't want to say to much in a review that might spoil the story for anyone thinking of reading the book.
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