The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake

Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival.Įpic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children.

And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.īut wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can’t stop partying with the wrong people. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn’t drown like the rest of the passengers. At least that’s what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told.

The Larkin family isn’t just lucky-they persevere. So consider this my shoving it in your face and saying READ IT because it is just so absolutely beautiful and even though it might make you cry, you won’t be sorry. As I prepare this post on December 5, 2021, I have just tweeted about The Last True Poets of the Seaby Julia Drake and found that waaaay too many people either don’t know about it, or don’t know how great it is, or don’t know that it’s a contemporary reimagining of Twelfth Night, or that it’s full of found family and the most stunning, lyrical writing.

The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake