Title:
Silence (Novella 1, Lakeview Novel Series)
Author:
Stacey R. Campbell
Publisher:
Green Darner Press (May 28, 2015)
Genre: Young
Adult Fiction
ASIN:
B00YGCAR1K
Amazon Kindle
Only 55 pages $.99
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YGCAR1K
Website: http///www.staceyrcampbell.com
Like all the Lakeview
novels, Silence emphasizes
the vital importance of family and "extended family" connections. This
quick, lively and poignant read explores that special longing felt by many
adopted children: to know their biological parents. In this novelette sequel to
Hush, Blakely Henry is now
a graduate of Lakeview Academy who juggles her new life as queen of a fictional
Mediterranean country with college and her hunky fiancé. Her adoptive
American parents are on hand to help out, and it's touching how supportive they
are of Blakely's deep need to meet her biological father.
Author Stacey R. Campbell has meticulously crafted characters who come to
life on the page so well that you feel you know them. She keeps the tone light,
and is unafraid of tackling painful memories or events that come up as
Blakely's search intensifies. Details such as the excellent pasta dishes the
castle cook can whip up for her pleasure enhance the pleasures of this story
which has one foot in "fairy tale" and the other in
"reality."
What makes this journey so much fun is how much everyone involved cares.
Blakely's whole family plus her fiancé accompany her on this tough journey
which leads them through some beautiful parts of France. As always, Campbell
gives us multiple points of view, tipping us off to the Truth before the
heroine discovers it--building suspense about what will happen after all the
cards are on the table.
Silence is glamorous fun
(how much easier our lives would be if we all had our own "royal
stylist"), and at the same time, it is down to earth about skeletons in
family closets and how families choose to deal with them. This is one of those
sequels you can read without reading the novel that it follows (Hush); although it will make you want to go back
and read the full story of how the adopted Blakely Henry came to find out she
is the only surviving blood relative of an assassinated monarchy of a country
that now needs her help.
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