Rise And Shine, Benedict Stone: The most charming, uplifting and feel-good novel of summer 2021 from the bestselling author of The Library of Lost and Found

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I loved The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper and her latest book is another winner. The author has the ability to write about relationships in a heartwarming way that just pulls you into the story and the lives of these characters. Benedict was sweet but naive and had a heart of gold. He and Gemma grew together, and Gemma helped Benedict in his jewelry shop - a shop Gemma said needed some new ideas and changes just like Benedict did. I thoroughly enjoyed Benedict and felt sorry for him as he worked through living without his wife. His jewelry shop and their love just hadn't been enough for them after they were unable to have children after eight years. Ella's television experience includes roles in the historical fantasy Reign (2013) and on the medical drama series Saving Hope. She played a guest starring role in It Takes a Village (2018). Her role as the iconic character of Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables: Fire and Dew (2017) earned Ella her first award, the Canadian Screen Award in 2018.

Turquoise is my favorite gemstone. I’ve seen various meanings for it. Some include healing, friendship, tranquility, and protection. It's a feel-good story about family relationships. Benedict wants to reconcile with his wife and find a way to move forward in his mundane life. His niece from America helps him in his quest by showing him how to update his gemstone shop as well as his way of thinking. Gemma has a gift for helping him as well as the townspeople come out of their comfort zones and grow, while using the mysterious properties of various gemstones to do so. Okay, so it's also a mystical kind of story, which I usually enjoy. The story then took a new twist with Gemma learning and teaching about the meaning of gemstones and handing them out to people with hopes to better their lives. Gemma is hiding a huge secret, but then so is Benedict. Even Estelle doesn't know Benedict's secret and she knows everything about him. Rise and Shine, Benedict Stone' will premiere on September 26, Sunday, at 9/8 c, on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Spoilers Mixed feelings about this one. If the reader can suspend belief and just go with it, that's the best way to enjoy it.

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I adored Arthur Pepper and imagined coming across him in my travels. Now I feel the same way about Benedict Stone! When Gemma, the teenaged daughter of his estranged brother, arrives unannounced from America and shows up on the doorstep of Benedict's home in a quiet English village, she shakes up his mundane life. He and his wife are separated, his jewelry shop business has declined, and Gemma provides the spark to get things moving again. Hallmark has covered broken marriages before, but I don’t think that there has ever been a Hallmark movie that covered a married couple who was separated because they disagreed on continuing to try to have children. The way the story and central conflict are set up in a way that makes both Benedict and Emilia sympathetic characters. With Hallmark’s history of demonizing women who don’t fit in a certain narrative, this was definitely refreshing to see. Benedict owns a jewelry shop and turns out the same hum drum pieces despite there being virtually no demand and very few customers. Estelle is a painter with an upcoming exhibit of her artworks, which feature vibrant vistas of the local moors. Benedict, by contrast, is a study in grays when we first meet him, from his wardrobe to the walls of the shop to the metals he works with. The story's very ambiguity steadily feeds its mysteriousness and power, and Danielewski's mastery of postmodernist and cinema-derived rhetoric up the ante continuously, and stunningly. One of the most impressive excursions into the supernatural in many a year. James Langton was a supreme success once again. He voices the range of characters, including most of the village, and their quirks so well. His sense of timing and emotion were spot on.

Gemma was the one who was helping Benedict change even though Gemma was pretty closed mouth about why she appeared on his doorstep and didn't want to call her father to let him know where she was. Perhaps I should have expected the conflict because something from that direction was inevitable, but it caught me a little by surprise in how it played out.

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There are so many good themes in this movie that I wish they were all explored a bit more. While Benedict and Emelia deciding that they are happy without children was a bit rushed, at least that storyline saw a fulfilling end. However, Gemma and Charlie’s respective storylines were a bit unfinished. I would have liked to see Charlie learn to be a bit more understanding of the difficult situation Benedict was in raising his little brother at 18. As with the first story, a man has reached a crisis point in his life and must now go on a personal journey to recover something that has been lost. Benedict Stone is a caregiver and a provider. He knows no other way and his biggest dream is to have his own children so as a family they can carry on tradition. His parents died hunting their precious gemstones when he was a very young man and he took on the care of his brother and the running of the family jewelry making shop.