Review: The Garden of Happy Endings

The Garden of Happy Endings by Barbara O'Neal
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I was blown away with this book. My first O'Neal .. but it won't be my last.

Elsa is a minister in the Unity church. She loves her congregation but experiences heartbreak and feels she can't hear God any more and really where was He when one of her own, a 14 year old girl, Kiki was murdered? Why would a loving God let something so bad happen? So Elsa is asked to take a break and she goes back home, to Pueblo. To Joaquin, a man Elsa was engaged to but felt he was called to be a priest instead of marrying her. And why would Elsa's God let that happen too?

Elsa knows that the best way to get get through your own problems is to help others. So that is where she starts, helping out in Joaquin's parish with the soup kitchen day, which grows into helping making a sore ugly area behind the church into a community garden. A gentleman friend of Joaquin's, Deacon, helps as well.

Interwoven in the story is also Elsa's sister, Tasmin, who's life is falling apart when her husband goes missing, saying he was involved in a Ponzi scheme. Everything Tasmin knew, her nice cush life is taken from her, only allowing to take her personal items and leave her dream house.

You will find out how Elsa comes to terms with bad things that sometimes happen in our lives as well as her sister Tasmin and a whole host of other characters you will come to love.

Need I say more? GO go now and get the book... Don't wait, you don't want to miss out on this one!



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