A Winter by The Sea (On Devonshire Shore #2) Julie Klassen. 2023. [December] 448 pages. [Source: Library]
First sentence: If a quill pen was truly more powerful than a rapier, as Shakespeare suggested, then a pen must also be more powerful than a needle. Emily Summers mused on this as she sat in the parlour, writing in a notebook. Around her, her mother and sisters sewed together over tea and pleasant conversation. Even Viola, her recently married twin, had come over from Westmount with her needlework bag to join them. Only their oldest sister, Claire, was absent.
Genre(s): Christian fiction, clean romance, historical fiction, Regency fiction
A Winter by the Sea is the sequel to The Sisters of Sea View. The Summer family continues opening their home [in Devonshire] as a guest house to paying guests. The excitement surrounding the community is the soon to be arrival of members of the royal family--the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the infant Victoria. While they will not be lodging at their "guest house" (aka boarding house) some of their staff will be...including a Mr. James Thompson.
Julie Klassen has done research on the community for this time period, and the royal visit indeed did take place. This was where the Duke of Kent died. [Hopefully that doesn't count as a true spoiler].
The book follows the personal lives of the Summer sisters--Sarah, Emily, Viola, and Georgiana. Viola was married off [had her big romance] in the first book. This book is Emily's turn. Emily isn't a silly, flighty girl in search of a husband. (Though she does want to find her one true love). She is also interested in reading, writing, and editing. She is NOT interested in embroidery.
I definitely enjoyed this one. I loved both books in this series so much. I'm not sure I loved it more than the first book. I'm not sure I loved it less either. I liked that a handful of characters in this one were real historical people.
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