Friday, July 8, 2016

GROSGRAIN AND TAFFETA (The Corsetier #1) by A.L. Anderson

4 STARS


A whole lifetime of people telling you shouldn't like what you like and you shouldn't do what do even if it is a driving passion. What finally makes you decide you will? That you will be you.

This story had the chance to follow the well trodden path multiple times, and never did. It uses humor and family, setbacks, and acceptance to reveal Cris. There is fickleness to fate as he finds out, false starts and failure--or is it? Fundamentally, one must believe before they can conceive. To accept that one can create before it can bloom. All this set amongst sensual fabrics and fantastical musings on construction, for designing and creating a corset is structure and beauty refined. Aesthetics.



The only time you'll grasp the brass ring is when you try for it. 

And after all that, there's a fairy tale ending because it happens a lot more often than you think. It's about seeing what's in front of you, that yellow brick road, that frog, that silly bean; they're all potential. Life is potential. Finding your future means accepting you. 

The Corsetier has always had a place.



Men are beautiful. They deserve pretty things, too. 

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