by Kim Edwards, Gesine Schröder
This book, while brimming with possibility, is a promise unfulfilled.A young woman, Lucy, returns from Japan to her upstate New York home, actually a Victorian mansion by The Lake of Dreams, a place from which she has distanced herself since her father’s death. As she adjusts to the changes about ...
DISCLAIMER: This is the first book that I have ever read by Kim Edwards and it might be my last, let me explain...First of all, this should of been a book that I enjoyed thoroughly. It's about a young woman named Lucy Jarrett who's about to turn 30 and is at a major cross roads in her life. When her...
The Lake of Dreams is one of my recent purchases. I have to admit I was attracted to the cover (colour, butterfly) on the shelf and after reading the blurb, was hooked in by the family history aspect.The story begins with a prologue that is narrated in the third person. The year is 1910 and it is ...
I agree with a friend of mine who said this book was sloppily written in the first 2/3 of the book. I am not seeing it clean up as greatly as she did though. Although, the story is good, it is not quite as "cleanly" written as I would have expected and I found myself really needing to slow down at t...
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