"As the Great War rages on, Sunset Cove continues to feel its impact. Running the small town newspaper, Anna McDowell can't escape the grim reports from the other side of the world, but home-front challenges abound as well. Dr. Daniel is serving the wounded on the front lines. And Katy, expecting her first child, with her husband in the trenches, tries to support the war effort with her Red Cross club. Even as the war winds down the costs are high--and Sunset Cove is not spared."--Publisher's description.
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"As the Great War rages on, Sunset Cove continues to feel its impact. Running the small town newspaper, Anna McDowell can't escape the grim reports from the other side of the world, but home-front challenges abound as well. Dr. Daniel is serving the wounded on the front lines. And Katy, expecting her first child, with her husband in the trenches, tries to support the war effort with her Red Cross club. Even as the war winds down the costs are high--and Sunset Cove is not spared."--Publisher's description.
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I'm gonna admit that I had some mixed emotions while reading Turning Tide. Not because the book wasn't a good one but because of current events. The parts about the war were quite interesting, and I don't remember having heard of the Sedition Act before, but it was pretty eerie reading about the Spanish Flu of 1918 while sitting at home during the 2020 COVID-19 epidemic and shut-down. I mean, some of this stuff is identical to what I see on the news every day now. Businesses closed or hours limited, self quarantine, social distancing, all of it is in this book. I know that this book was written months ago but I would imagine that Melody Carlson had absolutely no clue just how on the spot she would be when it would be released. Like I said, it's eerie...
Normally, I tend to view The Great War through the lens of the first WWI book that I read, L.M. Montgomery's Rilla Of Ingleside, but that was a Canadian story so I really appreciate reading stories like Turning Tide that have an American perspective. The honesty about returning soldiers having difficulties readjusting to civilian and home life is both accurate and appreciated. While it had a different name 100 years ago PTSD was just as real then as it is today.
So, the book itself was a nice historical romance and even features more than one wedding. The details of the lives of the people on the Home Front were interesting. We hear so much about the rationing of the next war that we often forget that WWI did at least some of the same. While I did read the first book in The Legacy Of Sunset Cove series, I missed books 2 and 3, and read this one, the 4th book. I missed a lot of stuff by skipping those books, so I recommend not making the same mistake I did, but I was still able to get into and enjoy the story.
Melody Carlson has a good series in her The Legacy Of Sunset Cove books. The bridge of 3, and later 4, generations of friends and family who live and work together is a nice break from all of the single, no family, workaholic stories out there. So, if you like that kind of thing, like I do, and want to learn a little history, you really should check out this book and the entire series from start to finish.
(I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are entirely my own.)