By Kelly Bridgewater
In this compelling
new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in
the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams
up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once
and for all.
1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely
in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York’s gilded society in
their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is
found dead in his smoking room.
1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy’s castle, now in
ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists
and locals alike. She is focused on preserving the island she inherited from
her grandparents and reviving their vintage candy shop. Until the day a girl
named Emma shows up on Chloe’s doorstep, with few possessions, save a tattered
scrapbook that connects her to the Pendleton family. When a reporter arrives at
Chloe’s store, asking questions about her grandfather, Chloe decides to help
him dig into a past she’d thought best left buried. The haunting truth about
Poppy, they soon discover, could save Emma’s life, so Chloe and Logan must work
together to investigate exactly what happened long ago on Koster Isle.
My Thoughts:
The
Wings of Poppy Pendleton by Melanie Dobson took my
breathe away. I love how she creates a pathway that readers might think be the
solution to the missing Poppy, but then Dobson threw another twist into the
story. I love how "Poppy" has a redemption plotline. The modern,
Chloe, character took in a little girl with no question asked. Dobson does a
wonderful job at bringing readers into the setting. I would have loved to visit
this castle and roam the expansive setting. The hidden passages filled with
jewels was never really explored. I would have loved to have seen Chloe stubble
across a pathway with many of the jewels left by Amelia. The two timelines
mixed and mingled nicely. I kept flipping through the pages of the story. I
could not wait to see what happened to Poppy and what this has to do with
Chloe. The historical mystery and the contemporary mystery wrapped nicely at
the end of the story. I LOVED this story, and I can't wait to have a physical
copy on my bookshelf.
I received a complimentary copy of The Wings of Poppy Pendleton by Melanie
Dobson from Tyndale Publishing, but the opinions stated are all my own.
My
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Purchase The Wings of Poppy Pendleton
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