Yesterday's Promise (East of the Sun Series #2)
Book: Yesterday's Promise
Author: Linda Lee Chaiken
Pages: 384
Publisher: WaterBrook Press
Reviewed by: Kat (age 19)
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As the son of the squire of Grimston Way, aristocrat Rogan Chantry has fought hard to win his independence from Sir Julien Bley and the British South Africa Company. Now, his pursuit of a mysterious deposit of gold, marked on a map willed to him by his murdered uncle, Henry Chantry, is challenged by a new complications: the impending British colonization of South Africa. Can Sir Rogan find the gold in the midst of escalating tensions among the native tribesman, the missionaries sent win them, and the new colonists?
Meanwhile in England, Evy Varley, the woman Rogan loves, is headed for a brave yet dangerous confronations with Henry's killer -- but at what price? With so much against Rogan and Evy, a reunion seems improbable, if not impossible. Can yesterday's promise hold them faithful to the hope of future freedom and victorious love? - Official summary from the books jacket. Copyright Waterbrook Press.
The second book in the East of the Sun series is quite a different being from the first. Where Tomrrow's Treasure was mostly a romance with a little mystery and intrigue thrown in; Tomorrow's Treasure is an adventure in Wild, untamed South Africa with still that element of mystery and intrigue just a tad bit less.
I sorely missed the bantering and romantic tension between Rogan and Evy in this book as the two are seperated during the majority of events. However, I was happy to find when I started reading that Evy's story still continued in the book. I had figured since Rogan featured on the cover that it would be solely from his perspective as the first had been solely from Evy's. But no the story features about 7 chapters on Evy, as well as various scenes from Arcilla's perspective and some other new characters.
Not to say that for lack of romance this book isn't worth reading, far from it. As the events in Tomorrow's Treasure told us about Rogan's dreams of finding gold in Africa it's great to actually go with him as he sets out to find his dream and encounters so many problems. It's also interesting to finally be able to get inside his head a little as he was so much of a mystery in the first book (being viewed only from Evy's perspective). The book IS exciting but I feel the 'car' so to speak is getting warmed up for the final real adventure that will take place in the third book (which I can't wait to read, btw) and because of that Yesterday's Promise seems rather slow at points.
Overall, though I didn't enjoy it as much as it's prequel Yesterday's Promise is a great book that you can't not read if you loved the first. Can't wait for the third and final installment. Stay tuned for my review!