Lurlene McDaniel

In Conners, Georgia, in 1974, fourteen-year-old Darcy tries to deal with her mother's battle with breast cancer, as she also faces new feelings for an outcast senior at her school and learns that the war in Vietnam is more than a school project.

Garden of Angels

Jessica Coleman

I could go on and on about the plot, the characters, the many pages in this book but it would not really matter. What matters is that Lurlene McDaniel wrote an amazingly good book, like she always does. 

This book is set in a time that happened before most readers were even born...I should know, I was born in 1989 and the book is set in 1974-1975.

The only thing I can complain about is why couldn't McDaniel pair up Jason with Darcy? I liked how Darcy experienced "first love" and "feeling like a woman" but I really longed to see them actually get together. And it saddened me, to no end, that in the epilogue, Darcy received word that, years after the story took place, Jason was killed in a motorcycle accident. I had hoped that Jason and Darcy would have found each other again, but I supposed that was not meant to be.

I'm the type of person that cries and gets sad when characters die in a book...well, characters I like, that is. This book is very good, but also sad.

Garden of Angels

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