Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave

Genre: Fiction

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Pages: 260

Rating: ★★★★★



Synopsis
There are secrets you share, and secrets you hide…

Growing up on her family’s Sonoma vineyard, Georgia Ford learned some important secrets. The secret number of grapes it takes to make a bottle of wine: eight hundred. The secret ingredient in her mother’s lasagna: chocolate. The secret behind ending a fight: hold hands.

But just a week before her wedding, thirty-year-old Georgia discovers her beloved fiancé has been keeping a secret so explosive, it will change their lives forever.

Georgia does what she’s always done: she returns to the family vineyard, expecting the comfort of her long-married parents, and her brothers, and everything familiar. But it turns out her fiancé is not the only one who’s been keeping secrets…

My Thoughts 
If books were free and I had unlimited time, I would have read this book in one sitting. But, this book cost $25 and I had to make it last the week. This caused me to physically force myself to stop reading it. This book was that good. 

I didn't have a whole lot of expectations for this book. It's not that I thought it wouldn't be good but I definitely wasn't expecting it to be great. I was looking for something light-hearted and easy-breasy for my first post-Outlander read. This book was everything I wanted and more. 

Eight Hundred Grapes really goes into how life changes in the most unexpected ways and how it will eventually lead you right back to where you belong. Laura Dave does a really great job at pulling you in to the characters and the setting. It was so easy to fall in love with the plot all because of the wonderful writing. 

Bottom line...grab a bottle of Pinot Noir and settle in for this sweet story. 

My Favorite Line
Synchronization. Everything lines up like a sign of where you are supposed to be. But what do you give up? Because you give something up. As simple - and complicated - as the other line, the other way your life could have been if you had taken a different path. If you had gotten into the right car. If you hadn't gotten out of the wrong one.