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📖🌞⭐FIVE STAR BOOK REVIEW⭐🌞📖

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📖Title: A Map to Paradise
✍️Author: Susan Meissner
📅Pub date: March 18, 2025

🥰Thank you so much to @berkleypub for the gifted book!

🌞I don’t know what it is about Susan Meissner’s writing, but it resonates so well with me every time. She truly makes reading fun and exciting for me and I just overall feel like she is one of the best storytellers out there!

📖The story itself was so interesting! It revolves around blacklisted Hollywood starlet, Melanie Cole and her agoraphobic neighbor, Elwood, who never comes out of his house. It’s set in Malibu, California in the 1950s. I DO NOT think you should read the synopsis since it gives away a little too much (in my opinion), and I would have liked for some of that to be a surprise!

🌞I loved literally everything about this book. The characters were multi-faceted, the setting was fascinating, the background was intriguing, and the story was full of the best kind of drama!

📖The writing isn’t super fast paced, but it really worked for me and helped me slow down and really get to know these characters! There is so much depth to each and every one of them!

❤️If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet read ONLY THE BEAUTIFUL by Susan Meissner, I BEG you to read it! One of my favorite books of all time!

❓How’s your week going?