A review by beedee
Daughters of Castle Deverill by Santa Montefiore

3.0

This second part following Songs of Love and War by Santa Montefiore, covering 1925-1938 years. The castle is coming back to the Deverill family, rebuild and getting new life. But that does not mean life becomes free of any concerns for Kitty, Celia and Bridie. Each of them has to conquer new problems. I loved how Celia character developed. Bridie didn’t change that much still pursuing her idea of the revenge. And Kitty seems to push to the background somehow. I liked the changes in the second characters. Sometimes they were more interesting and funny than the main. And the book has open ending, which means we are to expect third part.
However I found this book disappointing. Not in writing because that is excellent. The book is too slow. It is missing the sparkle the first part had. While reading the first part, I was “wrapped up” in the story. Now I was impatient, I wanted to finish it and the story was dragging. To add to it I didn’t like the last chapter it is Epilogue. I had to read it twice to grasp the idea what is this about. It felt like it dropped from nowhere. I assume it supposed to encourage looking for the next part of the whole story. But despite that obviously Kitty, Celia and Bridie story is not finished, I don’t have this urge feeling wanting to know what happened next.