In The Heron, she takes a haunted house, time-slips, and star-crossed lovers, crafts a base of true history and romance, then she turns the screw, letting deeds and dangers of the past swirl across the page. With skill and finesse, she blends story elements into such a compelling tale, you’ll be drawn right in, enchanted from the first line.
She’s a highly gifted wordsmith and she wields her pen with a mastery seldom seen, a talent that sets her apart. It reminds us, like Abbey, that "Love, hate, jealousy, the inner workings of heart and mind, endured unchanged."Īn important book in many ways, with its incredibly strong sense of place and its exploration of the emotional lives of women separated by four centuries who reach out to help one another find peace, it is also a cracking read that I found hard to put down. The Heron can be a challenging read in places, being both a tribute to the struggles of the men and women of the 18th century - taking the first steps to forge what would eventually become a great nation - and a tribute to the survival instinct. "the scene grew blurry and fluid.like a water color brush dipped in water, the diluted colors ran until the boat disappeared." Jean Roberts employs beautiful imagery to move effortlessly between her time-frames, hundreds of years apart: The author's research is impressive, yet woven seamlessly into the spooky story in such a way that it transports you effortlessly back to a time when survival was uncertain and women were secondary citizens, obliged to bend to the will of their husbands, however unreasonable. Like Abbey, I grew up on John Wayne movies, but not until I read this book did I suspect how complex and dangerous life must have been in those really early days. But when it becomes apparent that Abbey shares a ghostly connection with a Puritan woman trapped in a loveless marriage, both she and the reader are quickly jolted from present-day candle-lit oyster suppers into the harsh realities of life for colonial settlers.
The gutsy academic hopes the trip will get her over an abusive relationship back in her native Houston that ended with a drowning and subsequent memory loss for her.
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Yet nothing is what it seems, after professor Abbey Coote accepts a free getaway to a historic New England Inn, complete with a charismatic and handsome chef. I received an advance copy of The Heron from the author, expecting an escapist adventure, laced with romance.
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