I just finished "Cinnamon Wharf" and I think that the publishers are really missing out by not reprinting these wonderful hard to find classics by Janice Young Brooks. I devoured this book in one day - something I haven't been doing a lot of lately with more popular authors. Now, I would say that "Cinnamon Wharf" doesn't quite live up to "Guests of the Emporer" or "Seventrees" in my heart. However, it is still a novel of a caliber that is hard to find. I can still taste the salty air of the waves crashing against the cliffs at Castlemere and smell the Rosemary. The characters come alive, they are so three dimensional that I got lost in the book. They felt more like friends than fictional characters. I know it sounds cliche but I laughed out loud, I cried with them... I felt like a fly on the wall of a wonderful life. If you can find this novel it is well worth it!
Historical Romance At It's Best
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Cinnamon Wharf is one of my favorite books. I've read it numerous times and each and every time that I read it I enjoy it even more. Janice Young Brooks creates a very believable portrait of Victorian gentry, and the travel chapters in the novel are simply fascinating, and very well researched I might add. The Beecham's are a family you will want to get in touch with again and again. Don't shy away from the listing of "romance novel" it's worthy of a much more distinguished categorical identity.~Rosemary for Remembrance~
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