High Tide At noon

High Tide at Noon by Elisabeth Ogilvie
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is my second trip through High Tide at Noon, and re-reads of the rest of the trilogy are soon to follow, I think. I've written elsewhere, and at length, about how I feel about Elisabeth Ogilvie (really stinkin' good!). To be clear, these are romance novels. They are relics of a an age when the anatomy of a romance novel was less concrete, when authors drafted by hand without the revision benefit of word processors. And, for the Bennett's Island books, part of the love affair is with the setting and a bygone way of life. The gender roles and light discussion of class and race don't hold up, but the idea that we long for fantasy worlds to call home that are similar-to-but-different-from our regular lives endures, and I'm grateful to E.O. for every word she gave us on Bennett's. I will come back to these books again and again, if only to hear Owen Bennett whine that his kid sister is "teaming" him around while she knits trap heads in the living room.

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