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I’ll Be Your Blue Sky, Marisa de los Santos

Published 12 Mar 2018 by Gin Jenny

My favorite two of Marisa de los Santos’s books are her first two, the predecessors to her latest, I’ll Be Your Blue Sky, so I was excited to discover the further adventures of Clare Hobbes, first seen as a plucky waif in de los Santos’s debut, Love Walked In. The commonality with all of this author’s books — and the reason I keep going back to her in times of strife which this presidential administration certainly is — is that she writes most wonderfully and tenderly about love. Love of people, certainly, but also love of things and books and…

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The Precious One, Marisa de los Santos

Published 13 May 2015 by Gin Jenny

If I haven’t recently recommended Marisa de los Santos’s Love Walked In and Belong to Me, let me take the opportunity to do so now. She’s a writer along the lines of Jojo Moyes or Rainbow Rowell, where the books feel light-hearted even when sad things occur, and where the author seems to be the direct puppeteer of your heart strings (in a good way! not in a manipulative way!). Falling Together, de los Santos’s third book, was kind of a disappointment. I had my doubts about her fourth one, The Precious One. But I am glad to report that…

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Review: Falling Together, Marisa de los Santos

Published 14 Nov 2011 by Gin Jenny

I love Marisa de los Santos, LOVE HER. Love Walked In and Belong to Me were two books I didn’t expect to like but have become regulars in my permanent rotation of books that captivate me no matter how many times I reread them (the Harriet Vane books also feature prominently, along with I Capture the Castle and The Chosen). As you may imagine, I was thrilled to hear that she was writing a new book. I wrote a begging letter to HarperCollins asking for a review copy, and they obliged. I shrieked out loud with joy when my book…

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Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos

Published 2 Mar 2008 by Gin Jenny

Suggested by: My darling Mum This was good.  Ms. de los Santos writes most truthfully about relationships.  The little girl was very interesting and intense. I’d write more but I’m too busy trying to get school things done so that I can watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer later.

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