The Springsweet
Saundra Mitchell
The Vespertine #2
Synopsis: Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves
Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed
aunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishing
ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a
“springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of
holding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land.
Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water.
Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply surviving
and start living.
Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed
aunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishing
ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a
“springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of
holding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land.
Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water.
Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply surviving
and start living.
My thoughts:
I had just finished reading The Vespertine when I got The Springsweet in the mail for review. The Vespertine didn't amaze me at all, so I probably wouldn't have continued with this series if I hadn't felt obligated to review. I don't feel any better or worse off now that I have read The Springsweet. It actually kind of has me feeling "What was the point?". It was just a story, I didn't take anything else away from it. It didn't have me thinking about it afterwards, and I couldn't relate to anything in this book.
One thing that brought me to this series in the first place was the time period. It's the late 1880s. I really enjoy some historical fiction here and there. I think my favorite part is imagining the setting and what all the ladies are wearing! I think this series touched enough on those things, but I wasn't blown away either.
I did like Zora, the main character in this book, much more than Amelia, the main character from the first book. Maybe that is because I was able to get to know Zora more. Zora is much more carefree and easygoing. She likes to have fun. In this book, we see a different side of Zora. She has lost so many people, all at once (which I found kind of ridiculous by the way), and she really seems to become a lady afterwards.
This was a decent book. I don't intend on reading the next one, as it just didn't grasp me enough. I have too many books on my tbr list to waste my time on just a decent book!
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