Series: Yes, Waverly Family #2
Pages: 296
Copyright: 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Buy: Amazon
Review of the first book in the series: Garden Spells
Reviews of other books by Sarah Addison Allan: Sugar Queen, Lost, Lake, The Peach Keeper, and The Girl Who Chased the Moon
Summary: from Good Reads
From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of frost on new-fallen leaves...
It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn, the Waverley women are made restless by the whims of their mischievous apple tree... and all the magic that swirls around it. But this year, first frost has much more in store.
Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley’s Candies. Though her handcrafted confections—rose to recall lost love, lavender to promote happiness and lemon verbena to soothe throats and minds—are singularly effective, the business of selling them is costing her the everyday joys of her family, and her belief in her own precious gifts.
Sydney Waverley, too, is losing her balance. With each passing day she longs more for a baby— a namesake for her wonderful Henry. Yet the longer she tries, the more her desire becomes an unquenchable thirst, stealing the pleasure out of the life she already has.
Sydney’s daughter, Bay, has lost her heart to the boy she knows it belongs to…if only he could see it, too. But how can he, when he is so far outside her grasp that he appears to her as little more than a puff of smoke?
When a mysterious stranger shows up and challenges the very heart of their family, each of them must make choices they have never confronted before. And through it all, the Waverley sisters must search for a way to hold their family together through their troublesome season of change, waiting for that extraordinary event that is First Frost.
Lose yourself in Sarah Addison Allen's enchanting world and fall for her charmed characters in this captivating story that proves that a happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It’s where the real story begins.
Feelings:
First Frost contained more of the magical elements that past books by Sarah Addison Allen. I liked it because they were simple and you can see how in a small town families would get the reputation that might over time come to be magical.
It has been a long time since I read Garden Spells so I wasn't sure when I started reading this if I was going to need a refresher or not. Turns out this book stood on its own pretty well. It does help to know the history of the characters.
The story switches point of view between characters. I liked that aspect even though I wasn't sure I was going to like it when I started reading the story.
I highly recommend this book. The magical realism is perfect for this story.
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