{"id":33344,"date":"2017-08-21T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33344"},"modified":"2017-08-21T21:36:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T01:36:26","slug":"review-of-the-simplicity-of-cider-by-amy-e-reichert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33344","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Simplicity of Cider, by Amy E. Reichert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Simplicity of Cider<\/em><\/p>\n

by Amy E. Reichert<\/p>\n

Gallery Books, 2017. 309 pages.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a nice romance for adults, with interesting story, setting, and characters to go along with the romance.<\/p>\n

Sanna Lund has inherited a gift for making cider \u2013 she sees the juices of their family\u2019s different apple varieties in different colors. She can mix them by color and know how the finished product will taste. They\u2019ve owned the orchard for generations, but now it\u2019s down to her and her father. They\u2019re going to try to sell Sanna\u2019s cider in larger batches.<\/p>\n

But they hit financial snags \u2013 and then Sanna\u2019s father gets injured. They have to hire help even in the off-season, but that still may not be enough to pay bills.<\/p>\n

The help they hire is Isaac and his 10-year-old son Sebastian (Bass). Isaac is trying to give Bass one last summer to be a kid before he tells him the bad news about Bass\u2019s mother. Sanna gets off to a prickly start with Bass, but Isaac may be exactly what their orchard needs. Meanwhile, Sanna\u2019s brother is urging them to sell to a developer and someone\u2019s harming the heirloom trees that Sanna loves.<\/p>\n

Now, the evil developer plot line sometimes veered toward melodrama, but mostly things stayed interesting and realistic. I liked that Sanna is 6 feet 3 inches and as distinctive as that implies. I had to mentally adjust to her point of view in several scenes! All the characters are richly drawn.<\/p>\n

The author blurb says she \u201clikes to write stories that end well with characters you\u2019d invite to dinner.\u201d That sums up her books rather well \u2013 except that I would be sure her characters were the ones cooking the dinner! This is a thoroughly enjoyable story, and I feel like I have indeed had dinner in the friendly company of these characters.<\/p>\n

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