3 our of 5 starsTHE DILEMMA OF CHARLOTTE FARROW by Olivia Newport was good, but did not hold my attention the way THE PURSUIT OF LUCY BANNING, the first novel in the Avenue of Dreams series did.
Charlotte Farrow finds herself in quite the dilemma
indeed. The woman who has been watching
her infant son unexpectedly leaves town.
Knowing she will lose her job if her predicament is known, Charlotte
allows her employers, the Banning family, to believe the child was
abandoned. Having Henry under the same
roof as she, while the Banning’s decide what to do with the young boy is both
wonderful and frightening. Charlotte
struggles with telling the Banning family the truth about young Henry. She wants to claim her son as her own, but
struggles with the fact that she has no real life to offer him. When Archie, a man that is smitten with
Charlotte, finds out the truth about Henry, he offers to take care of them
both, and encourages Charlotte to tell her employers the truth. But, since Charlotte is still in fear of her
estranged husband, she is afraid to risk her position, her son, or her heart to
another.
We were first introduced to Charlotte in the previous
novel. But unfortunately, I don’t feel
there was enough of a story for Charlotte to carry a whole novel. The entire novel feels like a waiting
game. Will she or won’t she tell the truth? It wasn’t enough to really
hold my interest. I feel if her
interaction with Archie had started sooner in the novel and was more developed,
it would have made for a more entertaining story. I felt the book was just so-so.
Book provided for review purposes.
Available January 2013 at your favorite bookseller from
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
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