On Distant Shores
August 24th, 2013. Filed under: This & That.On Distant Shores
By Sarah Sundin
Lt. Georgiana Taylor has everything she could want. A boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. But in July 1943, Georgie’s cozy life gets more complicated when she meets pharmacist Sgt. John Hutchinson.
Hutch resents the lack of respect he gets as a noncommissioned serviceman and hates how the war keeps him from his fiancée. While Georgie and Hutch share a love of the starry night skies over Sicily, their lives back home are falling apart. Can they weather the hurt and betrayal? Or will the pressures of war destroy the fragile connection they’ve made?
With her signature attention to detail and her talent for bringing characters together, Sarah Sundin weaves an exciting tale of emotion, action, and romance that will leave you wanting more.
ISLAND BREEZES
It’s good to read about some old nursing friends in WWII. It’s Georgie’s story this time.
She has a boyfriend back home whom everyone (including Georgie) assumes she will marry after she gets out of the service. Ward and her family have always made her decisions for her.
Hutch has a fiancée back home who he thinks is waiting faithfully for him. He’s not about to mess that up, but he wants more respect and recognitions as a pharmacist in service to his country. That issue is creating a distance between him and the ones who can give him that respect.
Girl meets boy and they both become attracted to each other. They know it’s nothing they can pursue beyond friendship;. Can they even remain friends in this situation?
While this book is the second in the Wings of the Nightingale series, it’s a very good stand alone read. While reading With Every Letter first gives you some good background, it isn’t necessary to your enjoyment of this book.
I’m looking forward to another book in this series. I really want to know Kay’s story.
***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***
Sarah Sundin is the author of With Every Letter and the Wings of Glory series. In 2011, A Memory Between Us was a finalist in the Inspirational Reader’s Choice Awards, and Sarah received the Writer of the Year Award at the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. A graduate of UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy, she works on call as a hospital pharmacist. During WWII, her grandfather served as a pharmacist’s mate (medic) in the Navy and her great-uncle flew with the US Eighth Air Force in England. Sarah lives in California with her husband and three children.
Available August 2013 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
August 30th, 2013 at 13:47
Nancy – thank you for the review! I’m glad you enjoyed Georgie’s story – and are looking forward to Kay’s!