Review: The Perfect Beach Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2013
Becky Lower's Blame it on the Brontes is a novel about second chances--collectively for a family and individually for each of the three Bronte sisters as they are forced to cohabitate together in their Northeastern seaside town of Puffin Bay for a year according to their mother's will. During that year, old tensions will surface, like the jealousy and bitterness between Charlotte and Anne that kept Charlotte from her true love for eighteen years.As in her other books, Lower strikes a sensitive chord as she accurately portrays family dynamics in all their complexity and drama, and adds the redemptive qualities of healing and forgiveness.The descriptions of life in a coastal New England town, with lobstering, sea glass, and the pull of the ocean gives a wonderful feel to this story and makes for perfect beach reading.This is Lower's first contemporary novel. If you like it, you'll also love her historical series about the siblings of a large American family set in the 1850's.