The Peacock Emporium: A charming and enchanting love story from the bestselling author of Me Before You

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Without giving anything away, the ending is truly a remarkable and unexpected twist. Did you know in advance that this is how you would end it, or did the conclusion come about as you worked, slowly revealing itself to you?

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Me Before You is one of my all-time favorites. I hesitated reading anything else by her, worrying it wouldn't compare to MBY or would somehow taint that good memory. There are some key themes that Jojo Moyes works through - the issue of lies and well-meant deception, versus the right to know is an important one. The roles that money and status play in the complex web of marriage is another. If I had to describe to someone what this book is about, I don't know what I would say, I'm still not even sure what it was about. A women's journey of being a bitchy unhappy depressed women to finding happiness? Lo primero de todo es el comienzo del libro, el cual no tiene nada que ver con la sinopsis del libro. La sinopsis cuenta sobre una chica llamada Suzzana que abre una tienda y en la cual conoce la vida de los clientes. Me pareció interesante. Así que me dije: "vamos a intentarlo". Nada que ver. Comienza con un asistente de partos en un hospital (del cual no sabes nada hasta que casi llegas a la mitad). Y continua en la década de los 60. El salto te hace pensar que quizás ambas cosas estén relacionadas, pero... nada que ver!! Hay tantos personajes, tantas vidas que quiere contar, que al final no interesa ninguna. Y mira que me gustan las historias y la vida de las personas que estuvieron antes que nosotros... (Me encantó El jardín olvidado de Kate Morton, soy fan de Downton Abbey... ). Pero ha sido imposible de seguir. Sadly this place was a total disappointment. I’ve often walked past and thought how I’d love to pop in. Sadly it was dirty and had a musty smell as if it hadn’t been cleaned in a few weeks. I went at 8.40 am and you’d... expect it to have been cleaned first thing.I’ve read several of her books and have liked them a lot but I didn’t care for this. I did not enjoy the story and I didn’t feel or believe the romance. I hate cheaters so that was tainting everything for me. I never got pulled in and I wanted to so much. Even at the very end I thought the story would redeem itself but noooooo! We are given stories about the people that relate to Suzanna past and present to flesh out her otherwise insipid life. While Moyes doesn’t make it easy for us to like the characters, she adds the right amount of subtlety to convince us there is more to her protagonists than first meets the eye. In addition, the characters lives are quite interesting, and Moyes has you wishing you were there in the shop, having an espresso, and watching the story unfold. The characters in the novel—Suzanna, Alejandro, Vivi, Athene to name just a few—are incredibly complex, though some sober and reflective, while others have a much louder joie de vivre. What led you to these characters, and how did this story come about? Lo siento mucho, pero ha sido imposible terminarlo. Y de veras lo he intentado. Comencé a leerlo con la esperanza de encontrar algo tan bien construido como "Yo antes de ti", pero... ni de lejos. Voy a intentar hacer esta reseña por partes, ya que hay varios puntos que quiero comentar:

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Family and class are both significant themes in this book—and in some of your other books as well—and we see Suzanna, Douglas, and others chaffing at their tethers. What is it about issues of class that makes it important to you? Hay algunos temas clave en los que trabaja Jojo Moyes: el tema de las mentiras y el engaño, los roles que el dinero y el estatus juegan en la compleja red del matrimonio es otro. Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.El libro tomó algunas vueltas que no esperaba, pero en última instancia es una historia de cómo la familia forma nuestra creencia en sí mismo y las decisiones simples que toman las personas y la complejidad de por qué lo hacen. While the series may have started off as a romance, Jojo Moyes has turned Louisa Clark’s story into one about learning to be, and to love, yourself.”— Bustle Through the influence of Jessie, Suzanna gets to know the other shopkeepers and customers in the neighborhood, and the store’s business grows, as does Suzanna’s happiness. One male customer in particular seems to drop by more and more frequently. But Suzanna is married, and Jessie has a long-time boyfriend. They’re not sure what it means.