There is not a lot to dislike about this book….. NYC, tarot, gardens, magic(?), museum, lake house… I mean… it has the making of a great book. Hays took every piece of of a good story people love and threw it in a single story. Yet, it felt held back. So held back in fact, that plot got messy.
     I enjoyed reading this story, maybe because I kept wishing it would all come together. Maybe I kept rooting for the story to blow me away. In the end, it didn’t.

Was there a bad editor/editing advice involved or could the author not get it across the finish line? I don’t know. 
      It’s a slow moving, dragged out book, littered with holes as you go along. At the end we tried to bring everything together but I think the reader is pretty exhausted by the time we get there. 
     Edit: I have something positive to say! (ha) The description of each location, whether in New York, the museum or at Rachel’s lake house were wonderfully done. I was surprised when I started reading quality writing. Which I am trying not to knock the rest of the writing, but these sections really stuck out as something I was waiting for, excited to read.
     I really don’t have substantial positive notes to make, but the want to love it kept me from giving too low of a rating. If you set aside he messiness of the edit, this is a cute, easy read set in a wonderful location. For me, this is a 3.5 stars rounded down to 3 rating.