GRR Reviews His Muse by Twyla Turner

His Muse is a novel with a bookend beginning and ending in the present about a daughter discovering her mother's memoir. The story was much more touching than you first expect.

Kari pushed her mother away almost twenty years ago due to jealousy, shame, and later, guilt. Then an email arrived linking to her mother's memoir. Kari started reading, and found what's her mother's side of the story... // Taryn is a 44-year old (black) divorced mother starting over in the South of France. Her ex-husband replaced her with a younger and white woman. Taryn did not expect to fall in love, but Etienne is an artist and a singer and swept her off her feet. But he's only 29 (and a white boy). And she can no longer bear children. How much of her heart can Taryn give, even though Taryn is Etienne's muse?

The book reads a lot longer than it seems. It says only 300 pages, but it felt much longer, which is actually good. I won't spoil the plot, but this is one of those "fated mates" sagas that took some interesting twists. The book-end beginning and ending were somewhat unusual, but it worked in this case.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: An older divorced mother, starting over, was swooned by a younger artist who wanted to love her no matter what... but they are so different

Overall Rating: 5/5

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