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Title: Waiting for the Night Song
Author: Julie Carrick Dalton
Age: Adult
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery
Publication Date: January 12, 2021
Publisher: Forge
Source: Hardcover
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Synopsis:
My Rating:
My Thoughts:
A lyrically written novel that combines contemporary with a bit of suspense, mystery and racial issues. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this novel. I was sold on the cover because I just love the sky with open water paired with pinks and purples. Cover creation is stunning!
Author: Julie Carrick Dalton
Age: Adult
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery
Publication Date: January 12, 2021
Publisher: Forge
Source: Hardcover
Purchase: Hardcover | Kindle | Audible | B&N | Book Depository
Synopsis:
A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn't she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie's memory then all her other years combined.
Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals.
Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise.
My Rating:
My Thoughts:
A lyrically written novel that combines contemporary with a bit of suspense, mystery and racial issues. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this novel. I was sold on the cover because I just love the sky with open water paired with pinks and purples. Cover creation is stunning!
This story is told in two timelines: Present Day and That Summer (the past). We get to see both Cadie and Daniela in different views. They start off as friends until an event causes their relationship to be destroyed when Cadie was 11 years old. Twenty plus years later Daniela calls Cadie to tell her the childhood secrets that are about to surface with dire consequences for Daniela’s family and other people.
I loved both Daniela and Cadie. They are both such different characters which kept me intrigued in their friendship and all that happened between them. The setting, New Hampshire, is so well written, so you know that Julie took her time with researching and creating this story. This book touches on climate change and illegal immigration. This book is great for nature lovers as this gives off nature vibes.
Overall, this is an excellent novel and I can see me re-reading this again.
About the Author:
Julie Carrick Dalton grew up in Maryland and on a military base in Germany. As an adult, she bounced around from Seattle to Dallas to Virginia, before finding her true home in Boston, where she has lived for more than twenty years. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, Electric Literature, and other publications. She contributes to The Chicago Review of Books, DeadDarlings, and The Writer Unboxed. A Tin House alum and graduate of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator, Julie holds a Master’s in Literature and Creative Writing from Harvard Extension School. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of writing fiction in the age of climate crisis. Mom to four kids and two dogs, Julie is a passionate skier, hiker, and kayaker. She also owns and operates an organic farm. Please excuse her dirty fingernails.
Giveaway
About the Author:
Giveaway
- Giveaway is open to International
- Must be 13+ to Enter
- 1 Winner will receive WAITING FOR THE NIGHT SONG Storytellers BOX.
- 3 Winners will receive a Copy of WAITING FOR THE NIGHT SONG by Julie Carrick Dalton.
Tour Schedule
Check out the others that are on the tour...
WEEK ONE - REVIEW & INTERVIEWS
JANUARY 11th MONDAY JeanBookNerd SPOTLIGHT
JANUARY 12th TUESDAY Kait Plus Books INTERVIEW
JANUARY13th WEDNESDAY Two Points of Interest REVIEW
JANUARY14th THURSDAY BookHounds REVIEW & INTERVIEW
JANUARY14th THURSDAY Movies, Shows, & Books GUEST POST
JANUARY 15th FRIDAY Welcome to MLM Opinion's Reviews REVIEW
JANUARY 15th FRIDAY Books and Zebras REVIEW
WEEK TWO - REVIEWS
JANUARY 18th MONDAY Casia's Corner REVIEW
JANUARY 19th TUESDAY A Court of Coffee and Books REVIEW
JANUARY 20th WEDNESDAY J.R.'s Book Reviews REVIEW
JANUARY 21st THURSDAY Nay's Pink Bookshelf REVIEW
JANUARY 21st THURSDAY Gwendalyn's Books REVIEW
JANUARY 22nd FRIDAY My Fictional Oasis REVIEW
JANUARY 22nd FRIDAY Reading Adventures of a Book Dragon REVIEW
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