Review: I'm a Libra, loved this book.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
A very good friend recommended Sign of the Times, giving it great reviews. Being a person who finds astrology flimsy, I read the book with this predisposition. I rated the book 3 stars, but really it is 3.5 stars. (I think of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and JK Rowling as 5 stars.) I point out the rating and my thoughts because that is my limitation.I found Susan Buchanan's concept to use astrological data to drive her novel to be creative genius. All writers are looking for a unique approach to work with. I think she more than succeeded.Each astrological profile creates a character in the book. We immediately meet and fall in love with Holly. Author of travel books, she is in Pisa, Italy, wending her way into the life and culture. She immediately meets Dario. He proves to be a very compelling male lead - tall, dark, handsome, kind, successful. How could her thoughts not stray back to him over and over... even though her fiancé, Tom, waits for her at home?Each character and storyline we read is well-crafted and compelling. I kept reading, wondering how we could still be meeting new characters, but with less book and time to get to the resolutions. Ms. Buchanan did a wonderful job keeping me pulled in and interested.We find ourselves at Holly's book release party and all the characters come into play. It is here that we find out how each subplot has resolved, but one. While making her speech, Holly's world goes helter-skelter when Dario appears. Considering she hasn't spoken to him in months, this is quite a shock.What follows, the story of Holly, Tom, and Dario, left me in anguish. However, I've been told by the author that many of us felt that way and that a possible sequel is on its way.Please put me out of my misery, Susan Buchanan. Okay, I changed my mind and gave it 4 stars!