Rain Breaks No Bones

May 29, 2024May 30, 2024 by onemoreexclamation

Welcome to the final stop on the Rain Breaks No Bones by Barbara J. Taylor Book Tour hosted by Suzy Approved Book Tours. I can hardly believe it is coming to an end already.

Title: Rain Breaks No Bones

Written by: Barbara J. Taylor

Release Date: May 7, 2024

Find it: Amazon

About The Book

Fifty-year-old Violet has had a good life. The love of an honest man. The joys of motherhood. Yet, even in 1955, her heart still aches over the death of her sister more than four decades earlier. Lately, Violet can’t help thinking about the little girl, picturing her in the moments before the accident, wearing that pleated white dress and a hair bow to match. Maybe if her big sister were here she could tell Violet what to do about the secret she’s keeping from her daughter Daisy.

Daisy has a secret of her own. When she first moved back home to Scranton, she wasn’t ready to give up her dreams of performing in Atlantic City. Then she met Johnny, a man who needs music as much as she does. Her first real chance at love. If only they could find the courage to buck small-town thinking when it comes to interracial dating.

Small-town thinking. Zethray had seen her fair share of it. That’s why she advertised a room to rent in The Negro Motorist Green Book. Give folks a safe place to stay away from home. That’s how Johnny ended up at her door. Now he’s sweet on some young woman. Not that he told Zethray, but she knows. The dead like to talk, and she listens. If only her mother would tell the secret behind her shocking death. Instead, she stands silent, while that little girl with the bow in her hair runs wild.

Rain Breaks No Bones, is the final novel in the Scranton Trilogy, starting with Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night and All Waiting Is Long. Though the novels are connected, they each stand alone.

Review for Rain Breaks No Bones

“As I turned the final page, I wasn’t at all ready to say goodbye to these compassionately
imagined, vividly drawn characters.” —Laurie Loewenstein, author of Funeral Train

Doesn’t this title pique your interest? I was thrilled to find out the meaning of this Welsh Proverb, “A little discomfort never hurt anyone.”

Though this is the third in the trilogy, I have not read the first two books. Yet. I was not lost as it is a stand alone read. After reading this one, I must go back and start at the beginning.

My dad was from Pennsylvania so learning about life in the ‘50s was especially interesting. I always thought it would be a great era to grow up in with poodle skirts, Elvis, and a simpler life. Now, I don’t think I could have stomached the prejudice. The pages came alive with normal everyday life and events while the characters added the secret sauce. And when I say secret sauce, the secrets are gooey. This touching story of love, grief, and hardships kept me turning the pages until I hesitantly turned the final one. This is a story that will stay with me.

About The Author

Born and raised in Scranton, PA, Barbara J. Taylor sets her novels in the hometown she loves and fills them with miners, evangelists, vaudevillians, nuns, gangsters, prostitutes, widows, musicians, dreamers, and a seer or two. She is the author of Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night and All Waiting Is Long. Her latest book, Rain Breaks No Bones, is the final installment in her Scranton trilogy.

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