Omgoodness! Where or how do I start this review for this colorful engaging book I was able to savor with a perfect happy ending?
If an author can evoke such a feeling from me on 2nd page where I literally want to strangle one of the characters, then I know I'm about to read an excellent book with a bang. That,, my friends, tells me there is a very gifted storyteller on hand.
I love the fact that I was transported back to the 60's and 70's. It should've been labeled historical fiction. This is a story of an intelligent person dating back in her toddler years to her college years. She was able to experience the divorce of her parents and the dynamic of her families. She was able to experience almost everything during that explosive and controversial Era that helped to shape America today. The author was able to incorporate most of the main and minor tidbits of those eras to this book.
I do know most of the readers will be able to identify with the main character as she grows up and navigate through her painful and good young years. As for me, there was never a dull moment as I was being led through her relationships with all of her family members, her friends, and members. This is the story of her self discovery and being true to herself.
This is the book that should be read by everyone who wants to experience a blast from the past and those who have not experienced it. I promise you guys won't regret reading this book. This novel is worth savoring and it will stay with you after finishing this book.
I received this beautiful ARC from Net Galley and Elfenworks Productions in exchanged for my unbiased and honest review.

In Thread for Pearls we accompany Fiona on her journey through the chaos of the 60’s and 70’s. A journey that takes her from the USA to India, then back to Pensylvania: that includes a confusion of parental authority, veering from her birth mother, to her step-mother to her Grandmother and her father. For Fiona this means that she feels that she is wanted by nobody. She is rejected, she is emotionally hampered. She has one saving grace – she is clever, very clever. And she knows that through hard-work she will win through. Along the way though?

Fiona broke my heart. I could not believe how selfish, how self-centered (except for her Grandmother) these people were, how damaging. What is the saying, “the kindness of strangers”, without this and her friends, Fiona would have perished, I am sure.

Brilliant, gleaming just like a String of Pearls.

Thank you to the author, publishers and NetGalley for providing an ARC via my Kindle in return for an honest review.