![]() Except for the fact that it confused me at times this helped to drive the story because so much was rooted in the history of these characters. ![]() The timeline jumps around a little which I did have trouble following at times because the characters seemed to wander off into their memories without notice, totally sidetracking a scene and there were times I wasn’t quite sure if we ended up getting to the end of the scene in the present because we got so caught up in the past. After Nancy’s death Alice took on the role as Paige’s mother and that made life a little simpler. Nancy was Paige’s birth mother, who passed away when she was a child, and Alice was her partner. Paige grew up with two mothers in a time that it was far from common, and even further from socially acceptable so the fact that her history goes back no further than her birth is not that hard to understand. The dynamics in Season of Shadow and Light are not so much new but not often explored, it is becoming much more common now but this was a family dynamic that I was new to in literature. The plan was to head to small town Saddleton with some half baked idea to find out a little more about her history because she knows very little about her mothers roots. Perhaps a little rash, not completely thought out, but something she felt she had to do and when Alice couldn’t talk her out of it she decided to tag along. Paige Turner has given herself a time out from her life and packed up her 6 year old daughter Matilda for a road trip. Yes, there were some predictable outcomes but there were some that took quite a bit of working out and many is it or isn’t it moments all the while ensuring that not all the questions were answered. This method allowed us to see deep inside the story, and understand motivations that we may not have otherwise while driving the mystery and sustaining suspense. We have multiple story tellers, three for the most part but then an extra joins the ranks late in the piece, for a broad perspective and a much more insightful story. I loved it from the very first page to the very last. It is a story of family, of trust, of betrayal and most of all of healing. Season of Shadow and Light is a complex story filled with secrets which make for some intense mystery that kept me guessing, some of those guesses made room for some hairy situations had they come to pass. After having read Season of Shadow and Light I am even more determined to go back and read the first two in the collection. I have only heard good things about the Seasons Collection and Jenn’s debut House of all Seasons was one of our book club reads, one I unfortunately didn’t read but have got on my towering TBR to get to.
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