Sometimes the second book in a series isn't nearly as good as the first, but that was definitely not the case here! I loved "The Dress Shop on King Street", and "Paint and Nectar" was just as amazing. I do wish that I had read them closer together as there are a lot of small details linking the stories together that I really enjoyed, but it would have been able to follow better if I had read the books in quick succession. All the truth proclamations and little threads of beauty in brokenness, the needfulness of death to bring life, and God's amazing hand of redemption over it all will stay with me for a long time. I can't wait to read the third book!