Theo of Golden, Allen Levi (3.0)
I understand why many people like this book, but I found it a bit too cloying in its message. An older gentleman comes to a small town in Georgia for an unknown reason. He says little about himself and his reason for visiting but makes himself home in one area of town. He visits a coffee shop, admires the many portrait drawings on the walls and once finding that the subjects are local people, makes it his mission to buy them and give them to each person one at a time. The payment required is to sit and discuss themselves with Theo. There are many colorful, wonderful characters he meets this way. Each has their own interesting back-story. The journey the reader takes along this path is sweet -though a bit too sweet for me. I also found the climax very jarring, given all the soppy sugar that comes before it. Kind of like being told to look at unicorns and puppy dogs while a bus runs them over!
