“While I was falling so fast and so terribly recklessly, I felt like a plant that had been deprived of the sun for so long that when I finally found it again, I wanted to burn up in it.”

This was magical, flowery, beautiful. A romance, that was actually romantic to me.

But also so much grief. It’s about grief, friendship, love, flowers, gardens, healing, living, life. It’s about the golden moments that make this life. And what happens when your golden person suddenly isn’t there anymore and you don’t want to keep living the golden life without them.

I think compared to “The Seven Year Slip”, which I liked, but did not give it 5 stars, I liked this setting of the story so much more. I’m not a big city New York kinda gal and so this fast paced life doesn’t hit me so much, but here we had this wonderful grand garden. All the flowers and plants and trees and we actually spent so much time there. That’s what I loved.

In “The Seven Year Slip” I felt like the grief of our MC was there kind of next to the romance, and side plot and I felt a distance to it. Here it felt almost like the main thing. How do we tackle grief? What gives us permission to keep living our life after a loved one died? It was so central to the story and for the first time I really understood a grieving MC. Sophie really goes through a transformation with her grief and it’s beautiful to see.

I also loved how there wasn’t even that much romance in the first 50%. We got to know Sophie and the garden and even Harrie so well, that I was able to apreciate the romance and Cyrus when we got there. There was no big miscommunication, thank god. To me, their relationship development felt rather natural.

Many times my personal reading experience has a big influence on the rating I give this book. I read the second half of “The Someday Garden” in one sitting, one evening, and it was the ultimate comfort experience. I put on some good music and even discovered some new music that’s mentioned in this book and it was perfect.