Review: Nantucket by Nan Rossiter
Note: This ARC was provided by Kensington Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
“Cadie, don’t you see? I’ve spent most of my life thinking about you and wanting to be with you again . . . and I never had the chance. Now I have that chance, and I want to make the most of it.”
In the summer of 1989, seventeen-year-old Liam Tate meets and falls in love with college-bound Acadia Knox on the island of Nantucket, but after her father intervenes, deeming Liam not worthy to be with someone of Cadie's social standing and the two young lovers are kept apart...until their paths cross again more than a quarter of a century later at an art showing for a talented young artist named Levi Knox. Two secrets are soon revealed and Liam and Cadie find themselves re-discovering a love that never truly died. But Liam is about to face changes and challenges that will have him questioning and doubting choices and decisions that he needs to make and quickly realizes that time waits for no one--not even him and Cadie.
Nantucket is a standalone contemporary romance from bestselling author Nan Rossiter and has forty-three-year-old Liam Tate as its main character. His story is told in three parts, including a few flashbacks that tell of his young love affair with Cadie Knox in 1989 interspersed with his life as it currently was and then after he and Cadie reconcile. This is a story that is heartrendingly beautiful, filled with moments that break your heart and bring you to tears and those that make you believe in the power of love and hope. It's also a tale about faith and how God's plans may not always make sense to us or are ones that we necessarily agree with and realizing that everything that happens to us has a divine purpose and reason.
Liam is main character that you become emotionally invested in, a man who lives his life on an island and who lives a life that has him isolated not just from what may be considered by many as modern day necessities--aka technology--but also from deep relationships and interactions with other people. He lives in the home his uncle bought, continuing the boating business his uncle started, and lives a quiet and solitary life with his dog and his cat. He's alone but I don't really think he ever considered himself truly lonely until thoughts of Cadie come to mind or spending time with Tracey Regan, his best friend's wife and the only other woman Liam would ever consider spending his life with. His life is constant but mundane.
While the book does mention faith quite a number of times, there is no specific religion or belief system that is thrown in the reader's face, something that I always appreciate in these cases. If anything, the story presents faith as the acceptance of one's circumstances and making the most of the situation one may find himself in. Understanding may not always come when we want it, but I've always believed that there's a reason for everything that happens to us and that we are never given anything that we are not able to bear upon our shoulders. With a bittersweet and touching story and characters that you wish you could take in your arms and comfort, Nantucket reiterates the enduring strength of faith and love. Five-plus stars. ♥
Release Date: 25 August 2015
Date Read: 25 August 2015
Learn more about Nan Rossiter here.
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