Reviewer: Amy Lignor
Title: Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
Author: Kristina McMorris
Publisher: Kensington
ISBN-13: 978-0-7582-4685-1
Release Date: March 2012
Genre/Sub-genre: Historical Fiction/Romance
Year/Setting: 1940’s/California
Overall Rating: 5.0
Sexual Content Rating: Subtle/Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None/Mild
Violent Content Rating: Minimal/Moderate
Kristina's Website: www.kristinamcmorris.com
Dear Readers:
As she did with Letters From Home, Kristina McMorris has once again written a story of passion, trials, friendship, family and beauty that will stay with the reader for a very long time to come.
Maddie Kern is a good girl. This nineteen-year-old has been through a lot of stress, losing her mother and having her father holed up in an institution because he simply refuses to speak to anyone - wrapped up in a past that he simply can’t escape from. Maddie’s biggest goal in life is to play her violin at the Julliard School, which she has auditioned for already, but this time she has her best chance of getting accepted.
Maddie is taken care of by her older brother, T.J., who is even more strict than her father was. T.J. loves tow things - baseball and his sister - and wants to protect Maddie from the world. But what he doesn’t know is his best friend that he calls Tomo has secretly been dating Maddie for months, and when T.J. finds out about it, he is more than unhappy.
Tomo’s real name is Lane and he comes from a very wealthy Japanese family. His father is huge in the banking industry, and he is also very into the ‘old ways.’ He tells his son that the ‘matchmaker’ back in their native land has found a wife for him and she will be coming over very soon to meet her future husband. Lane has no idea how to tell his family that he has chosen Maddie for life and has no interest in a Japanese bride. Of course, before the families have much to say, Pearl Harbor is attacked, and more than one War begins.
Readers will run through life with Maddie and Lane as they try their very best to survive the bigotry and hatred that has cropped up in America against the Japanese, not to mention Maddie’s brother who has gone overseas to fight the enemy that was once his friend. Each and every page is breathtaking. Watching Maddie and Lane try to fight against all odds, while witnessing T.J. as he struggles to give up his childhood dream and finds himself in a prison that he may just never get out of unless his ‘friend turned enemy’ can save him, makes for a stunning plot.
The story is filled with laughter, tears and sheer beauty. All I can say is Kristina McMorris has once again written the ultimate epic that will appeal to readers of adventure, romance, drama, suspense and history. A true masterpiece!
Until next time,
Amy
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