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Love grows such strange things. For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world. They’ve also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears in the gardens. The boy is a mystery to Estrella, the Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her family, but he’s even more a mystery to himself; he knows nothing more about who he is or where he came from than his first name. As Estrella tries to help Fel piece together his unknown past, La Pradera leads them to secrets as dangerous as they are magical in this stunning exploration of love, loss, and family.
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0 0For over a century, the Nomeolvides women have lived on La Pradera; lush and fruitful lands. The Nomelolvides women all have special abilities to call upon and grow a certain flower, usually based on their names. The only caveat is that any man the Nomeolvides women falls in love with end up disappearing.
The five youngest Nomeolvides women are hoping to break this cycle of love and loss by all being in love with the same woman, Bay Briar. What they didn't expect was for a young man to appear on the grounds one morning and change everything.
Told from the youngest Nomeolvides, Estrella, point of view and one of the young men that appears, Fel, this book is lyrically beautiful, and will entrance reader's from the start with the beauty that is La Pradera and the Nomeolvides women. McLemore tackles all kinds of tough issues in this book, and does so with grace and magic. Highly recommended for all library collections.
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