Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
Rating: 4 stars
Published: October 3rd 2017
Goodreads Synopsis:
Love grows such strange things.I always enjoyed the magical realism that McLemore brings to her books.
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world. They’ve also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears in the gardens.
The boy is a mystery to Estrella, the Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her family, but he’s even more a mystery to himself; he knows nothing more about who he is or where he came from than his first name. As Estrella tries to help Fel piece together his unknown past, La Pradera leads them to secrets as dangerous as they are magical in this stunning exploration of love, loss, and family.
The Nomeolvides women have been cursed to remain on the land of La Pradera and tend to it, for generations upon generations. There have always been five women per generation, with powers to spawn flowers and other fauna at will. This changes when their powers unearth a boy from beneath the ground, a boy who doesn't remember his own name. This leads the Nomeolvides women to uncover the secrets of La Pradera.
