The Scent of Rain By Kristin Billerbeck
This book is about a woman Daphne Sweeten who loses
everything including her most prized sense, her sense of smell. This can be
problematic for someone who makes perfumes. After her disastrous wedding
day that never happened, she moves to a small town to start over. This
time, she has a job making scents for household products such as laundry
detergent and hand soap, an interesting job choice for someone who can’t smell.
The good:
This book has a good overall arc for a
romance. You can feel the tension build and it leaves off without any of
the over used sex scenes. There is good character development from the
main caricature as she sets to rebuild her life and get back her most treasured
gift. There is a lot of possible development from the secondary and
tertiary characters.
The indifferent:
There may be a good overall story arc, but if you
have any issue with the Christian church or faith than this book is not for
you. There are many places where the author makes unnecessary points to
show the characters faith; it would have great if it had furthered the
story. Since most of it didn’t it was just wasted book space. I
have no issue with faith being used in a book; it can be used to make some
amazing points. However, The Scent of Rain seemed to hammer it home
in an almost unconformable way. It even shows what happens to sinners who
do not act in a Christian way and how to save those people from
themselves.
The bad:
The end of the book seems rushed. Daphne is
working towards her goals she has gotten her life figured out and then the
ending hits you like a freight train. With so much build up and work done
in the first part of the book the ending is a letdown. In the end
everything just falls into place without any real preamble. Weeks went by
with no note by the author. The main characters decide that they are in
love and that is the end. I really feel that there should have been more
to the ending. Everything magically works out. The evil ex fiancée
has now gotten his just desserts and the amazing man she met loves her and is
giving her everything. Her life is back on track and she has everything
she wants or needs. the lack of realism hurt.
Another downside to this book is that Daphne
can’t figure out why she lost her sense of smell; the answer should have been
available to her everywhere via internet or any professional. She had a
case of hysterical sensory loss or the loss of a sense following traumatic or
life altering events. It really took her too long to be able to figure
something like this out. Her best friend who works in the mental health
field was unable to help her?
My last complaint is that the ending of the book is
given to you less than half way through. I can tell when the author
decided how this was going to end. The ending is handed to you in a dream
sequence that was wholly unnecessary. Leave me a little mystery. If
I wanted to know the end I would just skip ahead and read the last few pages of the book.
I suggest this to read if you can’t find something
else or you are looking for an easy read.
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