Violet: The Swelling Tide

by Elizabeth Cooke

Violet, The Swelling Tide -- the third and final volume in The Rose Trilogy -- provides adventure, intrigue and surprise. Love, lust, and retribution are rampant. Still set on the East End of Long Island, the characters undergo mysterious events and final confrontations, as water surges across the flat landmass that is Long Island, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to Long Island Sound, with lethal force.

116 pages, Paperback

Published October 27, 2017

About the author

Elizabeth Cooke, a New Yorker, in addition to the hotel series, "There's a Small Hotel" Secrets of a Small Hotel" and "The Hotel Next Door" is also author of a memoir, "Life Savors" "Eye of the Beholder" a book celebrating the muses of six artists, and "A Shadow Romance" a love story of an older couple. She currently resides in Georgia.

Her book, There's A Small Hotel won 1st place in the 2015 Paris Book Festival for General Fiction.

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this book in a goodreads drawing.

A soap opera type book about crises and confrontations as a hurricane engulfs Long Island.

Not bad.

[Andrea Stoeckel · Rating 4 out of 5]

“…Is the female as unfathomable as the ocean’s depth?”

This is the finale of the trilogy about Violet and Bud Rose, living on Long Island with Bud’s little daughter Starfish, and the extended family that has grown around them including Starfish’s biological grandparents. Star seems a happy girl, however, unknown to her her biological mother is lurking.

Much like the fictional hurricane, Violet is reactive and concerned about the daughter she was “saddled with” when she married Bud. She’d do anything to protect her Starfish. And add Mookie the dog and they are unstoppable.

Although this is the finale of a trilogy, it can be read as a stand-alone due to Elizabeth Cooke’s thoroughness and the way she writes. Worth a read. Recommended 4/5

[disclaimer: I won this book in a GoodReads giveaway. In no way did it reflect my opinions]

[Lyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm really a little bit surprised that I read this all the way through, because I'm not entirely sure that the whole point of the story was. I can guess a couple of things, but the title and the postscript page at the beginning of the book suggest that it's supposed to be about the storm, and not the character Violet... Yet the storm seemed to play such a minor part in it.
Here's some things I liked about the book: It's well-written. That makes the short chapters and short overall length more acceptable. And, despite the short length and not quite clear to me main point, it somehow kept me wanting to read throughout the whole thing.
Note: I received this book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.

[Joseph Dubey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this little book a lot. Short chapters made it easy to digest.Interesting characters made me finish it inone day.

[Debra Barstad · Rating 4 out of 5]

cute short book. Even thou I did not read the first two books this one was understandable with the characters. will have to check out more of this authers works.