Mitchell, Saundra The
Springsweet, 275 pgs. Harcourt, 2012. $16.99
Content: Language: PG (5 swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence:
PG.
Zora can’t get over the death of her
fiancé Thomas, so she decides to go west and leave Boston behind. In Oklahoma she lives with her young widowed
aunt and helps care for her little cousin.
What Zora doesn’t expect to find in Oklahoma is Emerson, a young and
irritating man who makes her feel things she hasn’t felt since Thomas died. While Zora is trying to figure out her
feelings for Emerson, and another love-interest, she learns that she can sense
water and tries to help people find water sources on their land, but helping
people doesn’t always work in her favor.
This is a fast engaging story about a young girl in the wilds of the
west. She is trying to deal with
heartache and new love while finding her purpose with her talents. This book is better written than the first
book in this series, The Vespertine, and the main characters strength make her
a great protagonist. Although the
characters are seventeen, the content is clean enough for middle school.
MS, HS-ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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