Book Review: Sugar and Salt by Susan Wiggs

Sugar + Salt 🙂.This is such a heartwarming story, and it celebrates love... innocence, acceptance, and friendship in their near purest form. Love is shared by people at different stages of life. People are healing from hurt and broken hearts. People are reuniting, and people are finding love again. It's a quick read.

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It's also a story of power. Jimmy Hunts and his family, plus acquaintances, are characters you find in every society. Filthy elites who would defend their people to the last. The effort to launder his name and how Margie had endured so much before because of what she did in self-defense 😥. Plus, she lost her mum...she grew up quickly.

Margie, who became Margot, had a baggage of emotional trauma from Texas to San Francisco Bay. One thing I liked about the story is how the characters of Margie and Margot had to switch names. Each time you saw Margie, you knew it was associated with the past, and Margot was a mature version of Margie.

Aside from Margot and Jerome. There was Ida and Frank ❤️🌹. Another progression of love over time... They never gave up on each other.

I also love how the love between Jerome and Margot blossomed. How she had to come clean with her past. Jerome listened to her without judgment, and I couldn't blame her for being reluctant to spit it out. That kind of history can set women back when it comes to relationships.

I like that Florence was honest about her feelings with Margot, and Jerome was calm enough to manage the situation. Both Jerome and Margot needed each other to move to the next stage of their lives. Jerome was recovering from a divorce from Florence with his boys.... Margot needed love that was accepting (even though she wasn't exactly looking for one 100%).

I think Jerome and Margot's love flourished because he was older and had his own baggage, which made him less judgmental and more accommodating.

One thing, though, is I don't think the writer accorded Margot enough strength for that character. She was a strong woman by all accounts, and I wanted her to have seen that herself before meeting Jerome. Her vulnerability was louder than her strength.

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