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A review by annascottcross
Ransome's Crossing by Kaye Dacus
4.0
In this second installment of The Ransome Trilogy, we get to see Julia and William travel across the Atlantic while trying to figure out their marriage. Their engagement occurred under less than desirable circumstances, but as it progressed they found that they did truly love each other and wanted this marriage to work. While on the Alexandra, though, they have a lot of things to figure out. Especially when they find out that William's sister Charlotte has stolen away on one of the ships traveling with them, the HMS Audacious.
This book has a lot of uncertainty and testing the waters. First of all, William and Julia are trying to figure out how their marriage will work. William is torn because of his strong sense of duty to his country and the navy, but he also has a strong sense of duty to Julia. And not only are his duties torn, but his desires are too. He loves his wife, but he also loves the naval life. He wants to become closer to his wife, but he is also afraid to since he knows that that would make their frequent partings even harder. So we get to see him try and establish a balance between his personal and career life.
Jumping over to Julia, we see a girl who has fallen in love and been heartbroken once. Even though she and William are past that, and she can even joke about it, she still has that level of distrust that causes her to be hesitant to be overly dependent on William. Especially after growing up watching her father be away with the navy her entire life and watching her mother long for him constantly. She knows that he loves the navy, and she doesn't want to get between that. But Julia does not only have to find her place with William, but she is all of the sudden living on a ship (when most sailors consider women on board bad luck) for two months as the only woman on board. She is terribly bored, but she doesn't want to bother anyone.
And now we jump to the other plot line in this story. Charlotte's, or Charles Lott's. She is hiding away on the ship to get to Jamaica to marry her secret fiancé. What she doesn't count on is being found out on the way. She feels torn because she feels bound to her fiancé, but she finds herself continually thinking about Ned Cochrane. Ned finds himself thinking about Charlotte, but at the same time tries not to because he is still starting out and is relatively poor, not to mention the fact that he feels bound to his career.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
This book has a lot of uncertainty and testing the waters. First of all, William and Julia are trying to figure out how their marriage will work. William is torn because of his strong sense of duty to his country and the navy, but he also has a strong sense of duty to Julia. And not only are his duties torn, but his desires are too. He loves his wife, but he also loves the naval life. He wants to become closer to his wife, but he is also afraid to since he knows that that would make their frequent partings even harder. So we get to see him try and establish a balance between his personal and career life.
Jumping over to Julia, we see a girl who has fallen in love and been heartbroken once. Even though she and William are past that, and she can even joke about it, she still has that level of distrust that causes her to be hesitant to be overly dependent on William. Especially after growing up watching her father be away with the navy her entire life and watching her mother long for him constantly. She knows that he loves the navy, and she doesn't want to get between that. But Julia does not only have to find her place with William, but she is all of the sudden living on a ship (when most sailors consider women on board bad luck) for two months as the only woman on board. She is terribly bored, but she doesn't want to bother anyone.
And now we jump to the other plot line in this story. Charlotte's, or Charles Lott's. She is hiding away on the ship to get to Jamaica to marry her secret fiancé. What she doesn't count on is being found out on the way. She feels torn because she feels bound to her fiancé, but she finds herself continually thinking about Ned Cochrane. Ned finds himself thinking about Charlotte, but at the same time tries not to because he is still starting out and is relatively poor, not to mention the fact that he feels bound to his career.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this book.