![]() It lingered in the air, like summer thunder, long after I turned the last page, beaming calmly into all my darkest corners, and the thought of it still warms me, like a candle flame held safe against the whipping sea wind. It felt like a hug, if a hug were a book. Reading The Last Poets of the Sea felt comforting in a way that defies words. ![]() Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lying hidden in a watery grave for over a century. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. ![]() And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. ![]() Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.īut wrecks seem to run in the family. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. ![]() The Larkin family isn't just lucky-they persevere. ![]()
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