Sarah Addison Allen

A tale set 10 years after the events in Garden Spells finds Claire's happy contentment shattered by her father's revelations, which challenge everything she ever believed about herself.

First Frost

Melissa Palmer

Book #104 Read in 2014
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen

One of my favorite authors, Sarah Addison Allen's soon-to-be-released book First Frost does not disappoint. Claire Waverly returns in this book and is questioning her Waverly gift. Her sister Sydney is dealing with her daughter Bay getting older and having her heart set on a boy...the son of Sydney's high school sweetheart who broke her heart. The family bands together when unity is threatened and the magical realism that this author does so well is throughout the book. The apple tree and Claire's house are characters in their own right and this was the perfect book to read around Halloween, with the weather getting colder. I received a copy of this book from BookBrowse, in exchange for a honest review. 

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Jessica De Hoyos

The beginning started out strong with descriptions giving me such a cozy and warm feeling. I was hoping for more magic and coziness but didn't get it. I lost interest in all of the characters and the story. I really wanted to love this.

Jan Talkington

This was a pleasant book to read. I would put it in the category of "summer read". A somewhat predictable story that still kept my attention.

Rebecca Light

Sarah Addison Allen's books are just like the candy in First Frost. They are sweet, you feel a *little* guilty reading them, and they make you feel things. This was the first of her books that I didn't finish in one sitting, but I still loved it. It started slow, took a while to get into the meat, but halfway through I was finally on the ride and didn't want to get off. The love story centers around teenagers this round, which I'll admit is not as captivating to a grown woman as the love stories in Garden Spells, but I guess I can be enough of a feminist to enjoy a good beach read without the titillating romance plot line :) In short, not my favorite Allen novel but I will still read anything and everything she writes.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of GARDEN SPELLS comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of frost on new-fallen leaves... It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn, the Waverley women are made restless by the whims of their mischievous apple tree... and all the magic that swirls around it. But this year, first frost has much more in store. Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley's Candies. Though her handcrafted confections-rose to recall lost love, lavender to promote happiness and lemon verbena to soothe throats and minds-are singularly effective, the business of selling them is costing her the everyday joys of her family, and her belief in her own precious gifts. Sydney Waverley, too, is losing her balance. With each passing day she longs more for a baby- a namesake for her wonderful Henry. Yet the longer she tries, the more her desire becomes an unquenchable thirst, stealing the pleasure out of the life she already has. Sydney's daughter, Bay, has lost her heart to the boy she knows it belongs to...if only he could see it, too. But how can he, when he is so far outside her grasp that he appears to her as little more than a puff of smoke? When a mysterious stranger shows up and challenges the very heart of their family, each of them must make choices they have never confronted before. And through it all, the Waverley sisters must search for a way to hold their family together through their troublesome season of change, waiting for that extraordinary event that is First Frost. Lose yourself in Sarah Addison Allen's enchanting world and fall for her charmed characters in this captivating story that proves that a happily-ever-after is never the real ending to a story. It's where the real story begins.

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