I also loved that there were direct and indirect mentions of her two previous novels.
An irresistible read, I completed the novel over a span of two days. I love it when I’m able to find a novel that I can fully indulge in and “Against the Tide” is just that. And call her crazy, but she’s beginning to think he’s just as smitten. However, Lydia is thrown off kilter when she comes to realize that she starting to have feelings for this man that she calls “Bane”. Lydia agrees to help him translate an array of documents, as mindless as they may be. He is in need of a master of many languages, that of which Lydia is a hired professional. (It would get a tad monotonous, don’t you think?)Īlong comes charming Alexander Banefield, who has similar qualities to that of a wrecking ball when it comes to Lydia’s life. Now, as an adult, she seeks out order and control in everyday things from the arrangement of her ink bottles to the type of soup she dines on every evening. This is Camden’s third novel and it does not disappoint.Īs an orphaned immigrant child stranded in Boston, Lydia Pallas’s life never had the consistent continuity and balance that any other nine year old child would naturally have. You could only image how excited I was to get the opportunity to review “Against the Tide”. I’ve had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Elizabeth Camden’s novels since their inception.
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