I'm not a fan of Novelas. I'm also not a fan of the female wishy washy lead in this story that was carried over from the earlier book. Novelas just are too quick to be able to really bring true meat to the story before the story is all tied up in a neat bow in the end. Novelas are too easy to know the story plot halfway in a you just want it to be done. Lisa Wingate is one of my favorite authors. I will continue to read her books. I just wish the publishers would give her more time per book to make them have more meat like her earlier books. I feel like they are rushing her to complete too many books and therefore the stories aren't as full as they used to be.

Quick novella, a continuation on Tandi from The Prayer Box. Story more on a piece of Tandi’s past as she visits an area from her childhood.

Takes you on a journey that you just lose yourself as you become part of these sister’s lives as they overcome their past.

it was a great postlude to The Prayer Box. It addressed Tandi's past and her relationship with her sister.

Lisa Wingate’s THE TIDEWATER SISTERS, a novella as part of the Carolina Series (Postlude to The Prayer Box). If you haven’t read The Sea Glass Sisters and The Prayer Box—you are in for a treat, highly recommend.

The Carolina Series in order:
• The Sea Glass Sisters .5
• The Prayer Box 1
• The Tidewater Sisters 1.5
• The Story Keeper 2.0
• The Sand Castle Sister 2.5
• The Sea Keeper's Daughter 3.0

The Tidewater Sisters picks from The Prayer Box, with character, Tandi, where she was running from a dangerous past and childhood, finally found solace within Iola’s house, where the letters in those boxes changed everything.

Presently, Tandi is living in the Outer Banks of NC, engaged to be married to Paul, a local school teacher, a single mom for Zoey and JT, and works for the Benoit House Museum, overseeing its renovations and works part-time at Sandy’s Seashell Shop.

Tandi’s life is going great, until she is served with legal papers—a lawsuit (real estate fraud). However, she owns no real estate. After further investigation, her worst nightmare—her sister, Gina. What has she done now?

She drives back to her grandparents’ old farm across the Pamlico Sound in the Carolina Tidewater, NC area—she loved her grandparents, which are now deceased and has some good memories, especially her first love, Luke. But then there was the accident.

All sorts of weird things begin happening, and more dark secrets are uncovered, when she returns to the farm. One shock after another, and then she has to do the unthinkable…turn in her sister or make things right?

Included in the jammed packed novella, bonus excerpts from the past two books, which I have read, and the and exciting upcoming (9/1/14)The Story Keeper, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

I typically do not give a novella a 5 Star rating; however, Wingate is a master storyteller, and even her short e-books are so engaging and packed full of emotion, with her heartfelt stories—making you feel you are reading a satisfying full novel.

Wingate combines Christian, contemporary, romance, multi-generational, and family drama into one compelling book.

Loving this series and looking forward to the upcoming,The Story Keeper,set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. As a native of NC, I love stories set in the coastal, Piedmont, and mountain areas of this region.

For those of you not familiar with the Tidewater Region – the land along the coast of NC, close to sea level. All the beaches of NC are located here. There are also capes, projections of land into water, on the coast of NC, and lighthouses normally found on a Cape, reduce incidents of collision between ships and the coast. The major streams and rivers from the Piedmont area empty into sounds or the Atlantic Ocean.

The Tidewater has eight sounds: Back, Pamlico, Albemarle, Currituck, Croatan, Roanoke, Core, and Bogue Sounds. It has many wetlands, where water covers the land. The Tidewater area in North and South Carolina is the only place in the world where the Venus Flytrap grows naturally.

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Short follow-up to The Prayer Box.

I am truly enjoying this series of books. The books draw you in with great character development and get you thinking about your own life and relationships with family and other people. This book is short and well worth the read as part of the series in order to understand the history between the two sisters.

I read this novella the same day I finished The Prayer Box (the book before this one in the series)… and I read it in three hours. I haven’t been so pulled in by a story in a long time; I just couldn’t put it down.

I am amazed at how well Lisa fit such a beautiful story of hope, forgiveness, and new beginnings in only a little over one hundred pages. Despite the size of the book, the story was very well developed. Well done, Lisa.

Overall, I am giving The Tidewater Sisters by Lisa Wingate 3.75 stars. It is a wonderful, short read.

God bless,
Kaya :)