Adult Review – This Little Nowhere, Nothing Town – contemporary fiction

Davison, Sara. This Little Nowhere, Nothing Town. 2025.

A Rose Tattoo Trilogy Companion Story Collection.

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Summary

Welcome to the little town of Elora, where everyone knows your name. And your business.

Through the stories in this collection, you will meet the charming, eccentric, fumbling, flawed, wonderful people who live here. Journey with them as they experience grief and betrayal, watch their dreams crumble into dust, become hopelessly lost (literally and figuratively), and struggle to believe they can ever be forgiven—by those they love or by God—for their past actions.

Whether their joy will be restored, their old dreams replaced with new, more joy-filled, meaningful ones, or they encounter unfathomable, life-changing grace and mercy, I leave it to you to discover.

As you do, I pray that you will experience for yourself in “This Little Nowhere, Nothing Town” something even richer and sweeter than the baked goods at the Taste of Heaven Café—hope. Hope that, whatever you are going through, whoever might have hurt you, wherever you may have wandered, it is never too late to turn around and, like the prodigals in these stories, be welcomed with open arms back home.

Although This Little Nowhere, Nothing Town is a companion to The Rose Tattoo Trilogy, telling the stories of several of the minor characters in those novels, the collection can be read on its own. Should you wish to enjoy the “full Rose Tattoo Trilogy experience,” the recommended order of reading guide at the front of the anthology will take you back and forth between the books and the stories.

Either way, grab a hot cup of coffee and a warm blueberry streusel muffin, settle on a chair near the fire, and enjoy your visit to Elora!

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My Adult Review

I have enjoyed reading Sara Davison’s stories in the Rose Tattoo Trilogy and look forward to the third book. I have read all of the novellas in this collection before but enjoyed re-reading them and re-aquainting myself with the characters. 

I appreciated Davison’s recommended order of reading which shows how each of the novellas fits into the greater scheme of the Rose Tattoo Trilogy. If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend reading these novellas in the context of the whole – getting copies of the two novels that have already been published. 

This Little Nowhere, Nothing Town introduces the reader to some interesting characters in the little town of Elora, Ontario, Canada. We meet visitors who come based on an image in a newspaper seen many years ago. We meet people who were wounded before coming to the town who find healing. We meet longtime residents who are working to make their town a better place. We meet a divorced family who works toward reconciliation. In reality the characters could be members of your town. There is much to learn from these characters and Davison does a great job of developing these characters.

The Rose Tattoo Trilogy and This Little Nowhere, Nothing Town were written for an adult audience. However, there is nothing to keep it from being added to a K-12 Christian school library. It is appropriate for high school students. 

I received a complimentary copy of This Little Nowhere, Nothing Town. This is my honest review. 

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