Review: A contemporary romance masterpiece
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
After reading "Blame It On the Brontes", I discovered that Becky Lower was not just a talented historical romance author of her Cotillion Series but that she turned a huge corner and let her readers discover that she is also a wonderful and gifted contemporary romance author as well.It is a warm-hearted tale of three older sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, who had gone their separate ways, living different lives, and holding on to their past filled with strong memories, good and bad, growing up in Puffin Bay, a coastal town in Maine.  Ms. Lower painted this story with color and images that leapt off the pages and I imagined the sounds of the sea as if I lived there and the sisters' voices as if I knew each of them personally.The author has taken the death of their mother and created a plot that caused this reader to catch a breath, a gulp, to cry, and to smile. It is their wise mother who knew her daughters had to come together as a family again and because of the stipulation in her Will, the sisters, if they want their inheritance, need to agree.Becky Lower has brought all the characters in her novel full circle in a way so unique. It revolves around sea glass, forgiveness, hope and love in descriptions that is a page turner.Each character has their own story to share with us. The men are as strong as the sea and so brave, knowing what they want and why. The sisters are older, each of them with their own personalities, their hates, their exaggerated untruths, their dreams and hopes for the future.I recommend this book highly.  Even if you don't live by the seaside, you will wish that you did by the time you have read the last page of this book.  Sharon Lee Fernberg