I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. A good mystery drama novel. Recommend

I wanted to love this book, but the story did not catch my interest - but, I do not like modern romance novels, so that is more than likely why. The story was well written and interesting, just the subject was not one I am interested in.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book in return for an honest review. (probably closer to 3.5 stars)

Normally I stay away from romance novels, but there was something unique about this one. This novel comes with a soundtrack of Flamenco ballads and instrumentals, with the author writing the lyrics and composing much of the music. I was intrigued and decided to give it a go.

The story begins in 2002, when Cassidy moves into a Victorian painted lady in San Francisco. She finds a secret drawer, and hidden within is a journal written by a woman named Savannah in 1977. Savannah’s journal entries detail her love for the married Alfonso, and ends with Savannah’s decision to make a clean break from Alfonso. Cassidy decides to find Savannah to return the journal. In the interest of not giving too much away, Savannah and Alfonso are reunited. The story outlines the paths they both walked alone, as well as their new journey together.

The story is told from a third-person point of view, and is sprinkled throughout with poetry and song lyrics. The theme is the power of love combined with the power of music to communicate all of love’s qualities (healing, breaking through pain, bringing us together with those we love and reconnecting us with our higher selves and our creator).

Definitely one for all you romance readers! I would recommend watching the trailer and purchasing the soundtrack for a fully immersive experience.

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Beautifully romantic and poignant, Midwinter Turns to Spring is an unforgettable romance that will capture the heart and emotions as the pages turn. Hard to put down once begun, Maria Veloso captures the deep and abiding love between two people that was to last a lifetime, despite some very huge obstacles placed in their way.
Alphonso Madrigal attends a lecture on Picasso given by Savannah Curtis, a fine art consultant and specialist. He is disturbed by something about her that he can’t work out. He asks her after the lecture about a painting, and a hand painted tambourine that he has owned for many years, given to him by his beloved grandmother, said to have been painted by Picasso in his youth, using the name Ruiz.
So begins an enchanting story that sees a flamenco player and a fine art specialist fall into a deep, passionate and abiding love, that may have remained as a passionate moment in time except for Cassidy, a young Law graduate renting the apartment that had been Savannah Curtis’s many years ago.
She finds two journals which capture her innate sense of curiosity and sets out to discover more about the two people so in love. What happened to them and where are they now.
This decision leads to the unexpected and eventually to Cassidy finding a new pathway in her own life.
Veloso’s descriptive turn of phrase and language is something that is seldom seen in novels in modern times, but as the story segues between the past and present, the metre used is perfect to describe the power of love, music and an integral spirituality.
Midwinter Turns to Spring was first published in 2005 and is now about to enchant to a new audience once again.