Review: Words cannot describe how amazing this book and series is!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
This is a series I could read over and over again.  My love for the Saving Angels series by Annie Rose Welch started with Marigny Street and continued on with Red Dirt Road.  Lotus Blossom Lane just solidified the adoration I have for these characters, for the author’s words.Annie Rose Welch has this style of writing that is poetic and just so beautiful.  She takes your breath away with the descriptions of places and scenes and her books are just haunting.  There is this light otherworldly quality to them, magical but not from magic. They will stay with you.  They will make you think is there something else in play here?.Lotus Blossom Lane.  Where do I start with you?  The cover is absolutely gorgeous and the story it holds inside is an absolute work of art.  I read another review where the reviewer said that Annie’s words are lyrical.  That the perfect description of how she writes and it describes Lotus Blossom Lane beautifully.We fell in love with Layla (Lotus) and Michael in Red Dirt Road and we start Lotus Blossom Lane with their wedding.  This has to be the most beautiful wedding scene I have ever read, from Layla getting prepared to walk down the aisle to the reception/party after.  It was magical.  You could see Layla’s dress in your head, almost hear Michael playing the piano, feel the emotions as they say their vows.  It was amazing.The our couple goes off to Ireland for their honeymoon.  We meet his family and friends as they become intricately woven into the story line.  Throughout this, there is a back story that isn’t talked about in the blurb and I don’t want to go into too much detail, but it ties so much together for us.  I cried more than once during these scenes where we introduced to characters from the past.I love how deeply Annie takes us into the lives of these people, how things that I first read in Marigny Street or in Red Dirt Road became integral here in Lotus Blossom Lane.  There are all of these threads that Annie has woven together into this beautiful ribbon that will be tied into a beautiful bow when the series is complete.  It is just so neat to see things that I didn’t know were going to be important in one of the book come together with other bits and pieces from the other book, and then watch it turn into something here in the third book.  Annie is a master at her art.I am dying to get my hands on the next book in this series.  I cannot wait to see where these characters are going, who is going to be important in whose life who might not even be aware of the other person at this moment in time.Thank you so much for my copy of Lotus Blossom Lane that was given to me to facilitate this review.  This is one of the books that I feel honored to have been asked to read.  So beautiful.  I wish the words I have could do justice to the amazing book that is Lotus Blossom Lane and the series, Saving Angels.