Pause for Tales: Review and Giveaway: Still Waters by Lindsey P. Brackett

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Review and Giveaway: Still Waters by Lindsey P. Brackett

Genre: Adult, Christian, Contemporary, FictionPublisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas

Publication date: September 8, 2017

When her beloved grandmother requests one last summer at Still Waters, the family cottage on Edisto Beach, Cora Anne returns to a place that haunts her with loss and tempts her with forgiveness.

Peace means reconciling her family and her Edisto memories. But acceptance may mean loving the man determined to preserve a past she'd rather forget.

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My Thoughts:

Still Waters by debut author Lindsey Brackett was such a delightful surprise and refreshing read. I was drawn into Cora Anne’s plight and feelings in regards to the event that scarred her when she was around twelve years old and how that ghost had followed her into her life. As Cora Ann goes back to the place where she never wanted to return at the bequest of her grandmother, she realizes that she must go back and confront her past. What she discovers are family secrets and love that can help her move past all that happened with the one person who was just as affected, if not more by those tragic circumstances- Tennessee (yes he is named after the state).

I really like how all the relationships unfolded: Cora Ann and her mother, her father, her grandmother, her cousin Hannah, and most of all her relationship with Tennessee. Grandmother Nan was a wonderful character who just wanted to bring her family back to a place that she loved and was filled at one time with happy memories. Keeping secrets of her own and knowing time is short, Nan wants to see her struggling children and grandchildren find happiness, love, and most of all joy.

Tennessee was such a hero and I really enjoyed his pursuit of Cora Ann and trying his best to love her through everything. This is an emotional book. The central themes are familial love and restoration, new love with newfound hope and joy, and learning to forgive oneself. I hope that there is a second planned after this story. I would like to have more of a resolution and more time with these characters. Have the tissues nearby.

I received an e-copy of the book for free and I purchased a paperback for my own reading pleasure. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.

Award-winning writer Lindsey P. Brackett once taught middle grades literature, but now she writes her own works in the midst of motherhood. A blogger since 2010, she has published articles and short stories in a variety of print and online publications including Thriving Family, Country Extra, HomeLife, Northeast Georgia Living, Splickety Prime, Splickety Love, and Southern Writers Magazine Best Short Fiction 2015. Lindsey serves as Editor of Web Content for the Splickety Publishing Group, and she writes a popular column for several North Georgia newspapers.

As a mother of four chaotic kids, her home is always full of wet towels, lost library books, and strong coffee. Her love of family ties and southern places prompted her debut novel, Still Waters, inspired by her own love of Edisto summers and peach ice cream. Connect with her at http://www.lindseypbrackett.com.

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