A Short Review of First Frost, by Sarah Addison Allen

First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Big Sarah Addison Allen fan here. And I think other fans will enjoy this sequel to Garden Spells and the continuing adventures of the Waverly family. Claire has started a new business, Waverly's Candies--but it seems it might be too successful. "Through her handcrafted confections--rose to recall lost love, lavender to promote happiness, and lemon verbena to soothe throats and minds--is singularly effective," the business itself is consuming her life, taking her from her family and causing her to question her own magic.

Her sister, Sydney, longs for another child--a son for her husband, Henry. They are trying. But her longing is consuming her as well.

Bay, Sydney's daughter, is now a high school-aged teenager and she has found the boy she knows, as only a Waverly can, who is meant for her. But Josh Matteson doesn't seem to know this, and that he is on the other side of the tracks--the richer, respectable side--will he ever know what is clearly meant to be? As Bay has "finally understood... no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision" (17).

Then the mysterious stranger arrives, with secrets that could break the family.

And first frost is coming--with its own magic. Something--or some things--were/are going to change.

The magical and the mundane, sweetness, love longed for, lost and found, truths revealed, and the intricacies of family drama--all here as Allen fans have come to expect, in a well-crafted and gracefully told tale.



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