The Melody of the Mulberries is a book written by Tonya Jewel Blessing, and is set in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, in the 1920s. I didn’t realize that this was book number two in a series, so my opinion of this book is formed on this book alone, and not a previous work of the author.
Being the second book in a series, I feel like I missed out on a lot, and by not reading the first book, i feel like I missed out on a great book. When I looked into the first one because I just kept feeling confused, I found that the first book seemed incredibly interesting. There was a kidnapping, and a man ending up in prison for it. I feel like I really missed out by not reading that one. It was really difficult reading this second book without the knowledge of the first. However, this was a good book. It has little touches that I loved, like the Appalachian folk beliefs at the beginning of every chapter. I wrote a few of them down, and have them in a notebook to refer to, sort of like affirmations. One that I really loved was:~ All wishes are shooting stars come true. (chapter six)
A couple of the others felt more like old wives tales, and superstitions, such as:
~ For good luck you must get out of the side of the bed in which you go in.
~If your right ear itches, someone is speaking well of you. If your left ear itches, someone is speaking ill of you. Those beliefs made it really fun to get to the nest chapter. The book also included little drawings of a plant, and it was really pretty. The cover was gorgeous too, and I love when books have covers I enjoy looking at. I loved a lot of the names used for the characters. That is something very important to me when I read. Character names that I love, and can pronounce easily make a very positive reading experience. If there are more difficult names in books, I find myself just automatically skipping over their name, and a lot of times, skipping the stuff about them. Not on purpose. It’s just really hard to focus and enjoy a story when your trying to figure out how to pronounce a particular name. I really enjoyed the writing style though, and really loved how I felt like I was back in the 1920s. The way the author used dialog to make me feel like I was there, was amazing, and really reminded me of a book I loved as a child.
This book felt very nostalgic for me, and I am so grateful I got the chance to read it. It took me back to a time when I fell in love with reading. As a kid I read that book with an accent in my head, and I kept finding myself do that with this one. And that just really put me over the moon in love with this book.
I will be looking forward to the next book in the series, hopefully there will be one, and I think I’m going to see about getting my hands on the first, and doing a marathon weekend of them because I just loved it.
This book was provided to me by bookcrash in exhcnage for an honest review. These words are my opinion.
Being the second book in a series, I feel like I missed out on a lot, and by not reading the first book, i feel like I missed out on a great book. When I looked into the first one because I just kept feeling confused, I found that the first book seemed incredibly interesting. There was a kidnapping, and a man ending up in prison for it. I feel like I really missed out by not reading that one. It was really difficult reading this second book without the knowledge of the first. However, this was a good book. It has little touches that I loved, like the Appalachian folk beliefs at the beginning of every chapter. I wrote a few of them down, and have them in a notebook to refer to, sort of like affirmations. One that I really loved was:~ All wishes are shooting stars come true. (chapter six)
A couple of the others felt more like old wives tales, and superstitions, such as:
~ For good luck you must get out of the side of the bed in which you go in.
~If your right ear itches, someone is speaking well of you. If your left ear itches, someone is speaking ill of you. Those beliefs made it really fun to get to the nest chapter. The book also included little drawings of a plant, and it was really pretty. The cover was gorgeous too, and I love when books have covers I enjoy looking at. I loved a lot of the names used for the characters. That is something very important to me when I read. Character names that I love, and can pronounce easily make a very positive reading experience. If there are more difficult names in books, I find myself just automatically skipping over their name, and a lot of times, skipping the stuff about them. Not on purpose. It’s just really hard to focus and enjoy a story when your trying to figure out how to pronounce a particular name. I really enjoyed the writing style though, and really loved how I felt like I was back in the 1920s. The way the author used dialog to make me feel like I was there, was amazing, and really reminded me of a book I loved as a child.
This book felt very nostalgic for me, and I am so grateful I got the chance to read it. It took me back to a time when I fell in love with reading. As a kid I read that book with an accent in my head, and I kept finding myself do that with this one. And that just really put me over the moon in love with this book.
I will be looking forward to the next book in the series, hopefully there will be one, and I think I’m going to see about getting my hands on the first, and doing a marathon weekend of them because I just loved it.
This book was provided to me by bookcrash in exhcnage for an honest review. These words are my opinion.
