Another fairy tale aspect of the plots is that good people generally get rewarded in the end and bad people get what they deserve, so there was a nice sense of cosmic justice even in the face of painful experiences. Getting to spend a few days of reading in a place like this book was like being on vacation. But I like to think kindness is most people's natural impulse. It's not always easy it can be downright scary. A few are bad eggs, but for the most part, the story focuses on people wanting to be kind, wanting to open their hearts to one another, wanting to do the right thing. But the characters in this book all live together, whatever their skin color or cultural background, as just folks. No one is exempt from troubles or tragedy. It's like a beautiful sunshine-y fairy tale showing how things could be. This book covered some continuing relationships that clearly have their own previous books, but also introduces Gemma, a white woman raising her grandson, who stumbles on two black orphans and wants to adopt them (foster/adopted children seem to be a huge part of this series).
There was only one spot where I had to double back to figure out whose head I was supposed to be in, and that was more my fault than the author's.
It's written in third person, moving from one character's POV to another's depending on which plot thread is being followed at the moment, but that was really well done, naturally and seamlessly. The series is set in the fictional town of Henry Adams, Kansas, a historically black town that is currently owned by a wealthy black woman, Bernadine, who bought it off eBay with the proceeds from an ugly divorce. That did not diminish from the book's pleasures, though, and it stands alone just fine. I thought it might be a fun, easy read while I had a cold, and it mostly was, although because of the on-going nature of the stories, it turned out to have a cast of thousands, which made it a little hard for me to keep track of all the characters at first. I grabbed it because I'd been meaning to try a Beverly Jenkins book for a while now, and this was prominently displayed on the New Books shelf during my last library visit. I'm not sure how to summarize this book, since it's the 8th in an-going series ("Blessings").
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