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A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed. Download a FREE sneak peek today!
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined.
Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals.
Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined.
Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals.
Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
28 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2020
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June 16, 2024
It took me some time to get into this book but when I finally did it was a good one.
January 27, 2022
Wow, this book was a S L O W start. I wanted to wait and really reflect on this book before writing a review, but the longer I waited, the more I became frustrated with the story. I honestly didn’t quite start connecting the dots until I was halfway through. I’m kind of glad I chose to do an audio version instead of picking up a hard copy because I probably wouldn’t have finished it.
While I appreciate that the author making Katie a eco-feminist who had a lot of heart for the environment, I just found it a little cheesy.
I also didn’t appreciate how the author made Daniella such a bully about wanting to protect her family who didn’t have papers. It made the character seemed cold and rude when in reality she was very protective and scared.
Also, Katie killed a bear on accident. That part made me cry.
While it was nicely woven together and tied into a knot in the end, the story became about too many things too fast. It was about the environment, then it was about race, then it was about the environment, then it was about her having a relationship with her long lost lake boy. It was too much too fast. And don’t get me started about Daniella’s kid. There was some moment where I thought the book was going to be great, but in the end it was just a jumbled mess. Just my thoughts!
While I appreciate that the author making Katie a eco-feminist who had a lot of heart for the environment, I just found it a little cheesy.
I also didn’t appreciate how the author made Daniella such a bully about wanting to protect her family who didn’t have papers. It made the character seemed cold and rude when in reality she was very protective and scared.
Also, Katie killed a bear on accident. That part made me cry.
While it was nicely woven together and tied into a knot in the end, the story became about too many things too fast. It was about the environment, then it was about race, then it was about the environment, then it was about her having a relationship with her long lost lake boy. It was too much too fast. And don’t get me started about Daniella’s kid. There was some moment where I thought the book was going to be great, but in the end it was just a jumbled mess. Just my thoughts!
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September 27, 2022
Easy read
I like how it was written in a two time line form. A story of past and present and how one event changed several lives
I like how it was written in a two time line form. A story of past and present and how one event changed several lives
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