Book of the Week: The Seventh Unicorn By: Kelly Jones

This has been an interesting read. My friend let me borrow this book, she found it at the local used book store, which has since moved out of our neighborhood. (Dang!) At first I wasn't too interested in this book. It sat on my dresser for at least 6 months. It's a love story, and normally I really can't take the cheesy love story lit. I find it boorish. But then, after being so incredibly bored with all the work focused reading I have been doing, this looked pretty darn good. So I picked it up brushed off the dust and tossed it in my bag. I read it during my commute.

And it actually was interesting. Kind of exciting, and then almost too much so. It seems like in parts to be written almost as a soap. You know, jump from one person's story to the next, all sequential of course. So that bothered me a bit, but not as much as I expected. Still it was a nice quick read and the discussions about tapestry art was a nice break.

This book's setting is France. The main characters were college lovers that have reconnected by chance. She is an art curator. He is an art prof that resigned to find himself artistically. He has a fiance that he leaves behind in the States while he spends the summer in Paris. He comes across this old lover and they become involved professionally. It is rather charming to read about those butterfly feelings one gets for another.

I was very drawn to the historical stories and the path of time as the plot was developed. I'm inclined to read another book by this author.