Weekend Pick for February 16, 2024
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Happy Friday everyone! This week for our weekend pick I wanted to highlight Krystal Marquis’s The Davenports. With the tagline “Fortune favors the bold!,” this historical fiction novel is sure to enthrall those who love escaping into period pieces with ties to real people and events.
Exploring the lives of the Davenport family in Chicago, 1910, Marquis’s novel tells the story of four women–Olivia, Helen, Amy-Rose, and Ruby–and their winding paths to find themselves and find love in a world full of chandeliers, champagne, and endless parties. Olivia as the eldest daughter plans to fulfill her duty of getting married, but when she meets Washington Dewight, a passionate civil rights leader, her ideas of duty are obfuscated by the electric charge she feels with Dewight. Helen, Olivia’s sister and youngest daughter of the Davenport family, could care less about marriage and duty preferring to work on cars, but soon finds herself competing with her sister for the eye of a suitor. Amy-Rose and Ruby also find themselves seeking after one man’s attention–John Davenport. As brother to Olivia and Helen, John Davenport has always been in Amy-Rose’s life since she was a childhood friend turned servant to the Davenport family. Amy-Rose knows he is the one man she cannot have and although her dreams of opening a business distract her passions, she still holds on to the “what if” of pursuing her feelings for John. As Olivia’s best friend, Ruby hovers in John’s orbit, but cannot seem to keep his interest though family pressures grow and she finds herself plotting to win his attention when she unexpectedly falls for someone else. Love, passion, ambition, and triangles galore propel this novel forward and make the reader want to continue turning the pages.
Inspired by the real-life story of the Patterson family, The Davenports will suck you in and provide the perfect weekend escape while also offering a glimpse into a period of Black history often overlooked. Also, for series readers, the sequel is set to come out later this year!
Until next week, keep reading!
Cammie
Exploring the lives of the Davenport family in Chicago, 1910, Marquis’s novel tells the story of four women–Olivia, Helen, Amy-Rose, and Ruby–and their winding paths to find themselves and find love in a world full of chandeliers, champagne, and endless parties. Olivia as the eldest daughter plans to fulfill her duty of getting married, but when she meets Washington Dewight, a passionate civil rights leader, her ideas of duty are obfuscated by the electric charge she feels with Dewight. Helen, Olivia’s sister and youngest daughter of the Davenport family, could care less about marriage and duty preferring to work on cars, but soon finds herself competing with her sister for the eye of a suitor. Amy-Rose and Ruby also find themselves seeking after one man’s attention–John Davenport. As brother to Olivia and Helen, John Davenport has always been in Amy-Rose’s life since she was a childhood friend turned servant to the Davenport family. Amy-Rose knows he is the one man she cannot have and although her dreams of opening a business distract her passions, she still holds on to the “what if” of pursuing her feelings for John. As Olivia’s best friend, Ruby hovers in John’s orbit, but cannot seem to keep his interest though family pressures grow and she finds herself plotting to win his attention when she unexpectedly falls for someone else. Love, passion, ambition, and triangles galore propel this novel forward and make the reader want to continue turning the pages.
Inspired by the real-life story of the Patterson family, The Davenports will suck you in and provide the perfect weekend escape while also offering a glimpse into a period of Black history often overlooked. Also, for series readers, the sequel is set to come out later this year!
Until next week, keep reading!
Cammie
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