5🌟
How great it can be to step out of your normally preferred genres to find a charming and heartwarming story by a new to me author! Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber is the story of Anna Kate who must return to the town of Wicklow to bury her beloved Granny Zee who was the owner of the popular cafe. According to the will, Anna Kate must stay and run the cafe through the summer. Anna Kate wants to simply fulfill her obligations and be on her way to medical school, especially after hearing stories growing up how some people in the town blamed her mother for a car accident that killed her father before she was born.
Heather Webber writes so beautifully descriptive, you can truly see the town and the people in it. The magical realism with the story of the blackbird pies and the messages they deliver to the people who need to hear them is so well done. There's a charming cast of characters I became quite invested in, my heart breaking for them at times and hoping they would find happiness. A really wonderful story of the past, family you knew, family you didn't and second chances at happiness.
My many thanks to Forge Books and Bookish First for a copy to read and review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
How great it can be to step out of your normally preferred genres to find a charming and heartwarming story by a new to me author! Midnight at the Blackbird Café by Heather Webber is the story of Anna Kate who must return to the town of Wicklow to bury her beloved Granny Zee who was the owner of the popular cafe. According to the will, Anna Kate must stay and run the cafe through the summer. Anna Kate wants to simply fulfill her obligations and be on her way to medical school, especially after hearing stories growing up how some people in the town blamed her mother for a car accident that killed her father before she was born.
Heather Webber writes so beautifully descriptive, you can truly see the town and the people in it. The magical realism with the story of the blackbird pies and the messages they deliver to the people who need to hear them is so well done. There's a charming cast of characters I became quite invested in, my heart breaking for them at times and hoping they would find happiness. A really wonderful story of the past, family you knew, family you didn't and second chances at happiness.
My many thanks to Forge Books and Bookish First for a copy to read and review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.