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George and Louise #2
Shadows From the Sky
Oregon, 1927: Twelve-year-old Louise Pearson wants to fly. Her mother doesn’t think it’s ladylike; her best friend George Graham doesn’t think it’s safe.
But Louise doesn’t feel safe on the ground. Her mother seems to be holding her at arm’s length. George is preoccupied with a religious identity crisis. Worst of all, terrifying anonymous notes keep popping up where Louise least expects them.
Charles Lindbergh’s celebrated crossing of the Atlantic provides some much-needed distraction for a while, but as the summer goes on and the notes grow more threatening, Louise knows she needs to figure out who is targeting her… before her worst nightmares become reality.
But Louise doesn’t feel safe on the ground. Her mother seems to be holding her at arm’s length. George is preoccupied with a religious identity crisis. Worst of all, terrifying anonymous notes keep popping up where Louise least expects them.
Charles Lindbergh’s celebrated crossing of the Atlantic provides some much-needed distraction for a while, but as the summer goes on and the notes grow more threatening, Louise knows she needs to figure out who is targeting her… before her worst nightmares become reality.
226 pages, Paperback
Published November 28, 2023
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About the author
Eva Seyler
8 books54 followersEva was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She left that humidity pit at the age of three and spent the next twenty-one years in California, Idaho, Kentucky, and Washington before ending up in Oregon, where she now lives on a homestead in the western foothills with her husband and five children, two of whom are human.
Eva cannot remember a time when she couldn’t read, and has spent her life devouring books. In her early childhood years, she read and re-read The Boxcar Children, The Trumpet of the Swan, anything by Johanna Spyri or A A Milne, and any issues of National Geographic with illustrated articles about mummified, skeletonised, and otherwise no-longer-viable people.
As a teenager she was a huge fan of Louisa May Alcott and Jane Eyre.
As an adult she enjoys primarily historical fiction (adult or YA) and nonfiction on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, history, disaster, survival, dead people, and the reasons people become dead. Audiobooks are her jam, and the era of World War One is her historical pet.
Eva began writing stories when very young and wrote almost constantly until she was 25, after which she took a years-long break before coming back to pursue her old dream of becoming a published author for real. She loves crafting historical fiction that brings humanity to real times and events that otherwise might seem impersonal and distant, and making doodles to go with them.
When Eva is not writing, she is teaching her human children, eating chocolate, cooking or baking, wasting time on Twitter, and making weird shrieky noises every time she sees her non-human children. Also enjoys driving in snow when opportunity arises, because snow is the bomb.
https://linktr.ee/theevaseyler
Eva cannot remember a time when she couldn’t read, and has spent her life devouring books. In her early childhood years, she read and re-read The Boxcar Children, The Trumpet of the Swan, anything by Johanna Spyri or A A Milne, and any issues of National Geographic with illustrated articles about mummified, skeletonised, and otherwise no-longer-viable people.
As a teenager she was a huge fan of Louisa May Alcott and Jane Eyre.
As an adult she enjoys primarily historical fiction (adult or YA) and nonfiction on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, history, disaster, survival, dead people, and the reasons people become dead. Audiobooks are her jam, and the era of World War One is her historical pet.
Eva began writing stories when very young and wrote almost constantly until she was 25, after which she took a years-long break before coming back to pursue her old dream of becoming a published author for real. She loves crafting historical fiction that brings humanity to real times and events that otherwise might seem impersonal and distant, and making doodles to go with them.
When Eva is not writing, she is teaching her human children, eating chocolate, cooking or baking, wasting time on Twitter, and making weird shrieky noises every time she sees her non-human children. Also enjoys driving in snow when opportunity arises, because snow is the bomb.
https://linktr.ee/theevaseyler
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September 27, 2023
I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this book, and I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the continuing adventures of plucky, hard-headed Louise, clueless, good-hearted George, and their wonderfully messy families. The mystery was enough to keep you guessing, but what I'm really here for are the relationships, the setting (obviously personal to the author, and thus very real to the reader), and the eventual book where Louise and George grow up a bit further (or a lot further, in his case) to become the couple we all know they can be.
While this is technically a book for younge readers, it doesn't read as a 'kids book,' only a book that happens to feature kids as the main characters. There are some wonderful moments with the adults, particularly George's DadGeorge, who has been a favorite character since he appeared in The War in Our Hearts. George's mom is more than a match for him, though - and a refreshing change of pace from more standard mother figures in books set during this time period.
Quiet books may not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you get past the fact that there are no explosions, there is still a lot of human drama. And isn't that what life is, anyway?
While this is technically a book for younge readers, it doesn't read as a 'kids book,' only a book that happens to feature kids as the main characters. There are some wonderful moments with the adults, particularly George's DadGeorge, who has been a favorite character since he appeared in The War in Our Hearts. George's mom is more than a match for him, though - and a refreshing change of pace from more standard mother figures in books set during this time period.
Quiet books may not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you get past the fact that there are no explosions, there is still a lot of human drama. And isn't that what life is, anyway?
November 5, 2023
I absolutely love Louise. She’s strong and sweet and I would have wanted to be her friend when I was 12. I love George, too, and I definitely plan to read every book Eva ever writes.
**I received this as an arc. All opinions are my own.**
**I received this as an arc. All opinions are my own.**
September 20, 2023
If you liked Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley and enjoy boy-girl besties, big bicker energy, complicated parent relationships, and/or Girls Who Love Planes, you will love this book.
While it is book two in the George and Louise oeuvre, you do not need to have read The Summer I Found Home first--it stands alone just fine on its own. I do recommend reading élégie in tandem with Shadows, however--either before or after. If you'd like a free Spotify code for the élégie audio, just ask!
CW: threatened sexual abuse, incident of inappropriate touching, stalking. I wrote this for my kids (currently 11 and 13), so these topics are addressed in an age-appropriate way.
While it is book two in the George and Louise oeuvre, you do not need to have read The Summer I Found Home first--it stands alone just fine on its own. I do recommend reading élégie in tandem with Shadows, however--either before or after. If you'd like a free Spotify code for the élégie audio, just ask!
CW: threatened sexual abuse, incident of inappropriate touching, stalking. I wrote this for my kids (currently 11 and 13), so these topics are addressed in an age-appropriate way.
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