The Dress Shop on King Street



The Dress Shop on King Street
Ashley Clark
Bethany House Publishers

So I may or may not have a bit of a compulsion to read books that are set in Charleston- even just South Carolina in general. There aren’t a lot of books set here (unless you’re counting Southern Fiction, which isn’t usually my preferred genre) so whenever I see one, I tend to pick it up. Ashley Clark is a new author to me, and novels with dual timelines can be tricky, so I came into this one curious but skeptical. 

True to form, I definitely found one storyline much more compelling than the other- something I find that tends to be a hazard of the time slip genre. Really, I only found Harper’s story interesting in so much as it connected to Millie’s (which, now that I think about it, is a little ironic, since most of those scenes are the ones not set in Charleston!) Millie’s story was bittersweet and left me with a bit of an ache; I may have also been more drawn to that one because at heart I’ll always be a historical fiction type of girl.

I did like the way the importance of heirlooms took a center stage in the story, and while some of the Charleston bits might have struck me as a little touristy, I have to admit I enjoyed many of my favorite areas and places getting a shout-out. (I’m also quaking at the sheer cost of how much money it would take to actually buy a building on King Street, lol)

I have to admit I kind of selfishly hope that one day this author writes a straight-up historical about Charleston, which I admit would be much more my cup of tea.

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.



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