The last true poets of the sea – Rezension #21

„Don’t you think your great-great-great-grandparents loved each other?“
„It doesn’t matter. They’re long gone.“
„What are you talking about? Love always matters.“ He’d fired back so quickly that I knew he’d spoken from his reptilian brain, from the most Orion part of Orion. Put him in a pot to boil and when the rest of him had cooked off, he’d leave behind this jammy-sweet truth.

Julia Drake

Klappentext: The Larkin family isn’t just lucky – they persevere. At least that’s what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn’t drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.
But wrecks seem to run in the family. Tall, funny, musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life.
Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece – the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lying hidden in a watery grave for over a century.
She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes- and the bridges she builds along the way – may be the start of something like survival.

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„The last true poets of the sea“ von Julia Drake hat mich von der ersten zur letzten Seite gefesselt. Violet versucht einen Sommer lang ein verschollenes Schiff zu finden, aber auch sich selbst. Als Protagonistin ist Violet erfrischend, macht Fehler und Witze wie jeder andere Mensch auch. Romantisch, warm und poetisch geschrieben, voller Spannung und Witz, ist es ein perfektes Buch für den Sommer.

Rezension geschrieben von Anna Bertelmann

Bildquelle Beitragsbild: Anna Bertelmann