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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

by Tia Williams
Hachette Audio. Feb. 2024. 11:42 hrs. ISBN 9781668623473. $27.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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After leaving her wealthy family’s funeral home empire, social media sensation and florist Ricki Wilde moves to New York City to start her own business and get her life on track. Bolstered by the help of her adopted grandmother Ms. Della, including the space for her new flower shop, Ricki finds herself both inspired and maybe haunted by the echoes of the Harlem Renaissance. In Williams’s (Seven Days in June) latest, the Jazz Age is just around every corner, announcing itself with the scent of night-blooming jasmine in a public garden and the mysterious appearance of a man named Ezra Walker. It seems that magic is present not just in Ricki’s inspired designs—it is also drawing her inexorably to her soulmate.
VERDICT Narrators Mela Lee and Preston Butler bring Ricki and Ezra to life along with the cast of vibrant secondary characters, encompassing 1920s Harlem to the present day and all the magic that comes along. Recommend to listeners who enjoy slightly magical and time-defying stories such as Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Gabriel , May 31, 2024
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