Book Review: A Mosaic of Wings by Kimberly Duffy

My Thoughts:

What a beautiful story! I absolutely loved the development of the hero and heroine’s relationship that reminds one of Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe. With a magical tone, this debut author weaves a rich tale that will have her readers lost in the beauty of India and the wonders of entomology. This is a MUST read book!

My Rating:

FIVE stars! Action-packed! Easy-to-read! Entertaining! Great world building! Haunting! Happily Ever After! Informative! Inspirational! Page-turner! Romantic! Unpredictable! Wonderful characters!

It’s 1885, and all Nora Shipley wants, now that she’s graduating from Cornell University as valedictorian of the entomology program, is to follow in her late father’s footsteps by getting her master’s degree and taking over the scientific journal he started. The only way to uphold her father’s legacy is to win a scholarship, so she joins a research expedition in Kodaikanal, India, to prove herself in the field.

India isn’t what she expects, though, and neither is the rival classmate who accompanies her, Owen Epps. As her preconceptions of India–and of Owen–fall away, she finds both far more captivating than she expected. Forced by the expedition leader to stay at camp and illustrate exotic butterflies the men of the team find without her, Nora befriends Sita, a young Indian girl who has been dedicated to a goddess against her will.

In this spellbinding new land, Nora is soon faced with impossible choices–between saving Sita and saving her career, and between what she’s always thought she wanted and the man she’s come to love.

Kimberly Duffy is a Long Island native currently living in Southwest Ohio, via six months in India. When she’s not homeschooling her four kids, she writes historical fiction that takes her readers back in time and across oceans. She loves trips that require a passport, recipe books, and practicing kissing scenes with her husband of twenty years. He doesn’t mind. Visit Kimberly online at KimberlyDuffy.com