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Reviewed by Marta Tandori for Readers' Favorite
Solace by Angela Smith is a bittersweet romance set in Chapman Springs, Texas in 1969. Brooklyn (Brook) Williams is at a town dance with Roy Abbott, the man she’s been casually dating, when he shocks her by dropping to one knee and proposing in front of everyone. Before Brook can reply, everyone rushes forward to offer their congratulations, but what very few know, including Roy, is that Brook is still married to her childhood sweetheart, Leath, who had abandoned her two years earlier for another tour in Viet Nam. Still struggling with Roy’s proposal the next day, Brook is shocked to learn that Leath has been home for a year – an entire year in which he hasn’t made any effort whatsoever to contact her.
Solace is aptly named, well-researched and beautifully executed. Angela Smith’s prose is crisp and evocative, nicely capturing the essence of an era poised on the precipice of evolving technology while still mired by the hate and prejudices of the time. Leath left for Nam a boy and came back a shell-shocked, wounded man who’s doing his best to cope in his old world while haunted by the nightmares that constantly plague him. The language is shocking, crude at times, and politically incorrect by today's standards, but necessary in order to remind us of the narrow-mindedness of that shameful time of bitter upheaval in America’s history. This talented author’s voice shines through with a vibrant poignancy that is sure to touch a reader’s heart. It certainly did mine.
