About this book:“In This Intimate Historical Epic, the Heart-wrenching Dilemmas of The Meeting Place Come to Rest on...The Sacred Shore Oceans and circumstances have forced families apart. For the banished French Acadians drifting in exile, the shore means safety--though it is a safety at a terrible price. For the lonely British nobleman, the shore holds a single chance to secure his legacy. For Andrew and Catherine Harrow, the shore marks a tragic separation. An extraordinary set of journeys awaits them all, each as intricate and perilous as the coastline itself. New beginnings are connected to all that has come before. And the past penetrates into what is yet to come. The common thread is a yearning to discover their identities in their families, in their communities, and in their God.”Series: Book #2 in the “Song of Acadia” series. {Read Book #1’s review Here!}Spiritual Content- Many, many Prayers; Many talks about the Bible & reading it; Many, many Talks about God, trusting Him & His will; ‘H’s are capital when referring to God; Bible reading & many Scriptures are quoted or mentioned; Very strong Faiths and growing Faiths; Mentions of church going; Pastors & Witnessing; Andrew is a minister; Nicole questions God’s existence (but later knows Him).Negative Content- Curses are said but not written; Mentions of smoking; War (up to semi-detailed).Sexual Content- A not-detailed kiss; Touches (barely-above-not-detailed); A mention of a man who is so handsome that “lasses who would never have resisted his urgings”; A little bit of love & the emotions-Nicole Robichand-Charles Harrow P.O.V. switches between them, Anne, Andrew, Catherine, Henri & Louise Set in 1773 268 pages~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Pre Teens- One StarNew Teens- Two StarsEarly High School Teens- Three Stars (and a half)Older High School Teens- Five StarsMy personal Rating- Three Stars (and a half)At first I was a bit taken back that this novel is set eighteen years after book #1, “The Hiding Place”, but once I got over that, I really enjoyed it! Not as much as the first book in the series, but I still was in awe of all the Spiritual Content and lack of Sexual Content! Link to review:http://booksforchristiangirls.blogspo...*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
Louise and Catherine are grown, with grown daughters and each a family of her own. Though their friendship and love for one another must be at a distance, and though the years and time have not been without it's dangers, their faith has not weakened. But with the difficulties surrounding their mysterious childhood, their daughters “Anne” and “Nicole” are searching for a like faith in their parents God, for answers, and for healing and wholeness once more. A story of two families, woven together by faith, love, and two very noble young women. “Always remember, my beloved one, you can never be where God is not. There is no place you can outdistance Him. No dark corner where you can hide where He is not already there waiting there for your arrival. No deep recess of your heart or soul that He does not know of. No secret that He does not share. And He does have power. To change, to keep, to do the impossible. I pray you discover Him for yourself, for without Him, nothing of importance is possible. We can only fumble and stumble in the darkness. But with Him there is light, even in the harshest of times.” Though this sequeal story did not pick up exactly where I had expected it to – with the girls bringing up their little ones and Louise and her husband Henri on their journey to a new “home” I still found it a very enjoyable read. The one thing I could have wished changed was that it did not follow enough with both Anne AND Nicole. Plus, the story added Andrew's brother, Charles, from England and followed a great deal of his story, which tended to drag and lag a bit at times. But it did add an interesting twist to the plotline and helped add to the beautiful moving story of faith and salvation, and learning to lean and trust in God during the storms of life.t“There before [Charles], dancing about on the waves still rising as high as their remaining two masts, he saw the answer. The message was clear. There would be more storms in his life, more times when human power and earthly possessions were stripped away. The challenge was not how to avoid them, for they would come. Oh yes. They would come. The question was, how would he use them? What would he learn? When the fury passed and he was in control once more, what lesson would he take from the encounter?”
What do You think about The Sacred Shore (2000)?
It's been so hard to concentrate on books lately and I've felt really bad because I wanted to finish this one, but there's been so much going on. And on top of that, I had to get this one as EPUB when I don't have a nook! Unfair! Anyway, this book is about Antoinette and Elspeth, all grown up. Anne (born Antoinette Robichaud) in Acadia is a well rounded, happy child who may or may not already know the full story of her origins; it's never made clear exactly when she's told. The story doesn't begin with her so much as it does with her uncle Charles, who comes to ask her to come back to England as his heir. Charles is told then, privately, that Anne isn't his blood niece and he decides to go search for the real Elspeth Harrow.Meanwhile, in Louisiana: Nicole (born Elspeth Harrow) is rejecting a proposal from a boy she's not supposed to have any contact with. She's something of a nomad, and when she is told the truth about her origins she somewhat understandably gets extremely upset, feels misplaced, and decides to travel to Acadia to find her birth parents. Okay, I will stop talking there because the rest is kind of spoilery and I LOVE this series. Even with all the praying I love this series. But the middle of the book kind of dragged for me because Louise was my favorite in the original book, and I feel like she kind of got shafted because here goes Nicole, and Anne has no desire to travel to Louisiana, so she's just there all alone and not knowing the fate of EITHER of her daughters. Meanwhile Catherine, while a great lady, is going to get to know both of them? And I really wanted to like Nicole, but she seemed kind of selfish in a way right up until close to the end. Even though she was helping other people I still felt like her decisions were extremely selfish at times.Despite that, though, this was so well handled and realistically written and of course I was in tears by the end of it. Can'tw ait for the next one!
—Traci
This book was the first book I read from the series. I was going through my grandmas old closet and room in Puerto Rico looking for some old interesting book to read. When I go back to my room my grandma is there with two books: The Sacred Shore and The Birth Right. I ask her what they are and she says they are these books my mom and two aunts read when they were young and she told me that since she knew I loved reading she knew I would enjoy them. Of course i doubted this seeing that they were old and that I had never heard from the author before but as I started reading this book I saw that she was right. The Sacred Shore is a very wonderful book. I loved it in every single way. I loved how Nicole(Elspeth) and Anne(Antoinette) found out about her real parents. How Nicole was trying to find out who she really was and I liked Anne's confidence. I liked all the characters. I loved the settings and journeys Nicole had to take to really find who she was. I loved how there was love in the book about family and forgiveness. It was an awesome beautiful book. And I loved that Nicole and Anne were beautiful girls and I loved that here was the teaching of God in it too. They were captivating stories and I just loved the history setting. I recommend it and its a must read.
—Audrey *Ebook and Romance Lover*
