Something to read but not really worth the time.

Chaos, broken pieces, fractured hearts-the aftermath of divorce. This book is about how you move to the other side, pick up the pieces and build anew. On the way, you learn something about healing and the craft of making perfume. The author knows a lot about scents and smells and how you experience life and can make you smell the complexity of that life. People, scents, living make this book a good read.

FayeLove her books! Am slowly working my way through them. She has such lovable characters. Needed a good story about women struggling to find their way and succeeding. Glad she has written so many. On to the next!

Well written and super fun to with all the local references to Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs. Outside of that, is a pretty pedestrian romance novel full of bitter divorcées.

Thought it'd be so different. I have only read one other Barbara Samuel Book, Night of Fire, which I absolutely loved. While I knew this wasn't a historical, I thought I'd like the story. I didn't.This was too depressing, even with some good things happening. I also don't like lots of F words, both C words and others in my stories. I thought this would be a nice, sweet story-not sickeningly, but a good one, but it was just too dark and left me feeling cold.I have another book of hers ready to re...

I love her later books and decided to take a peek at her writing early on. It’s good, a bit predictable. She has really stretched as an author in her latest books. I did love seeing whispers of where further books might lead.

Okay, this book avoided most of the things that annoy me about a romantic female lead:--Young--Skinny--Comfortably well-off--Unaware of the world around them--Careful about offending nobody (unless it's people who don't like sass)--Helpless--Yet inordinately bravePlus, one of the major themes of the book was about assembling perfumes, and I totally geeked out on that. Smart, painful, funny, broke, overweight and still sexy, dark in spots, fragile in others, and a love scene at the end (it irks m...

I love Barbara O'Neal, and I’m working my way through everything she’s written. I loved Nikki’s story arc, how she learned and grew, and was sad when the book ended because I wanted to spend more time in her world. I loved getting a glimpse into the perfume world, and now desperately want to visit Colorado (though every one of her books makes me want to visit CO!)

I liked the perfume angle in this story. Nikki has been obsessed with scents her whole life and her hobby is making custom perfumes for friends and family. Eventually, she decides to make it a business.Nikki's life is in upheaval: recently divorced from a marriage that she thought was happy, her teenage daughter is living out of state with her father, and Nikki has to get a job to support herself for the first time since she was single. It's a lot, and Nikki doesn't handle it all perfectly, but

From another author this story probably wouldn´t have been for me. What makes Barbara Samuel/Barbara O´Neal so special is that she always has characters who´s passions (this time perfumes) take the story in a whole new direction...

Barbara O'Neal made me want to move to this place and befriend some of the characters!

What do you do when your husband leaves you, the divorce is final, and basically all you get is the house that you subconsciously don’t want? You ignore the fact that the furnace needs repaired and let it blow up. Then you move to an apartment complex lovingly referred to as Splitsville by the tenants. So begins Madame Mirabou’s School of Love.But if the title gives you visions of the female tenants of the complex receiving words of wisdom from a perpetually happily married matriarch while they

Don't let the title fool you; it doesn't truly reflect the narrative of this book at all. My rating is 3.5 stars.I had a hard time putting this quick read down. I was intrigued by the sensory aspect of this book. Nikki has had a love of perfume and scents all her life, and each chapter opens with notes on blending a perfume to reflect a specific time or person in her life. Not only still recovering from her divorce, she has to re-establish her life after her home is destroyed after a faulty furn...

RelationshipsHad a hard time relating to the characters in this book. Story was okay. Would never reread this one. Have really liked others she wrote.

Surprising book--nothing like the title or the cover suggests. About a woman living through the aftermath of a divorce.Nicole “Nikki” Bridges, reeling from the betrayal of her husband and their subsequent divorce, is stymied even further in her life when her house blows up due to a faulty furnace. Homeless, possession-less, and with her daughter touring Europe with her ex and his new wife, Nikki needs to figure out what to do ito get her life together again. She rents an apartment in a building

I enjoyed this so much. it was perfect light reading for a day at home nursing a slight cold. I love how the women band together, mostly do the right thing, forgive when necessary. I love that the main character is 40ish, plump and still beautiful, I loved the setting in the mountains of Colorado, enjoyed the sexy parts, and the cat and the perfumes and even Nikki's fear of spiders.

What a fun read. A divorcee finds friendship, a lover, her sense of self, and a lifelong dream of opening her own perfume store!

Another great readSo much of the story line in this book could have been chapters of my life. I have found an author who can stir up so many emotions in me. Her female characters are so real, not perfect and flawed but with redeeming qualities that you want to know them, to be them. These stories get better and better and I gave more to read. Definitely recommend.

Barbara Samuel/O'Neal is one of my favorite writers because I always learn something from her books, in this book it was interesting to learn about perfumes. Plus the story is entertaining and an easy read.

3.5 stars. Great sense of place with the cute little mountain town, and I liked the use of scent throughout.