The Matchmaker's Gift
May. 5th, 2026 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI decided to read The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman because of a reading challenge where I needed a book with 'make' or 'maker' in the title and I thought this one sounded as thought it might be fun.
And it really was.
It follows Sara in the first half of the 1900s, discovering she has a gift for spotting love matches and wanting to pursue a career as a matchmaker in a part of society that does not trust young unmarried women in that role.
It also follows her granddaughter, Abby, who is working as a divorce lawyer in the mid-1990s and discovers more about her family's past and her own abilities when she is given her grandmother's journals.
It was an easy listen, well read by the narrator and a fun story - while the first half felt rather slight and it looked like it would be very predictable, things definitely ramped up in the second half, there were some surprises, and I ended up absolutely loving it.
In the last half an hour or so, it had me laughing and crying at the same time - on the train.
Lovely book.
And it really was.
It follows Sara in the first half of the 1900s, discovering she has a gift for spotting love matches and wanting to pursue a career as a matchmaker in a part of society that does not trust young unmarried women in that role.
It also follows her granddaughter, Abby, who is working as a divorce lawyer in the mid-1990s and discovers more about her family's past and her own abilities when she is given her grandmother's journals.
It was an easy listen, well read by the narrator and a fun story - while the first half felt rather slight and it looked like it would be very predictable, things definitely ramped up in the second half, there were some surprises, and I ended up absolutely loving it.
In the last half an hour or so, it had me laughing and crying at the same time - on the train.
Lovely book.
