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Shea Anderson has always followed a list of superstitions passed down to her from her beloved Nonna. One very important item is to never get engaged when your fiancé offers an heirloom ring. There’s potentially too much bad karma.
Her longtime boyfriend, John, knows this, so it seems inexplicable when he proposes with a beautiful heirloom. He has lots of logical reasons for choosing it, but it completely throws Shea.
She decides to search for the previous owner, so she can make sure that woman and her husband had a long, happy marriage. The search ends up taking her from Los Angeles to Italy, Portugal, Boston and New York.
Shea is joined for part of the time by her sister, as well as a journalist who loves to track down interesting stories to write about. Her journey brings up a lot of emotions and memories, not just from the people she talks to, but especially within herself.
The Heirloom isn’t quite what I was expecting; I think I was imagining perhaps a little magical realism or more of a sweet rom-com kind of adventure. Instead, it’s an exploration of the heart of a woman who has seen too many love stories go wrong. We get a heroine who goes on a wild goose chase and who has to finally take a good hard look inside. I think that part worked pretty well, though I felt the tone or direction of the story sometimes went astray. I didn’t know quite what kind of a book I was reading at times. Overall, a nice effort but not as cohesive as I would have liked.
Rated: Moderate. Profanity includes 2 uses of strong language, a few instances of moderate profanity, a dozen uses of mild language, and 20 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Some kissing but no sex scenes; references to people having affairs.
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