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The Fountain of Delight

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Despite the negative review from Publisher's Weekly, I enjoyed this sequel to All My Worldly Goods. I enjoyed reading about the characters' lives in the first book, and I wanted to hear what happened next.
There are several story lines in Fountain of Delight, all of them involving people connected with the Carlyon's home. The story jumps from one story to the next, often in alternating paragraphs even, which was rather distracting sometimes when something significant was happening in one story line, and it skipped to another line after only a couple paragraphs of the first, and then back and forth, but it did give a sense of the simultaneous progression of the people's lives. Each person is treated as a whole person, with their individual histories explaining why they talk and feel as they do. Being part Asian and part white myself, I particularly liked the parts dealing with mixed relationships.

I was reviewing what else Amazon had by Weale because I was hoping to find a book about these characters' further adventures. I didn't want the story to end, because people's lives don't end neatly and cleanly, and I still wasn't satisfied that I'd read all I wanted to when the story ended.

Weale gives enough of past history so the reader doesn't have to have read All My Worldly Goods to understand this story, but it helps to understand why the story starts out as it does.