Book: The Lake of Dead Languages Author: Carol Goodman Genre: Fiction/School Life/Reconciliation/Friendship Summary (from back of Ballantine Books edition): Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled from the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her ...
I loved this. I was pulled in from the beginning and the story would not let me go. I wanted to know who was the murderer and why. I suspected that one person was involved from the beginning but I did not know how. I was surprised how that person was involved and why. I liked this cast of characters...
I decided to read The Lake of Dead Languages for two reasons: some book blog compared it to The Secret History and I found a gently loved copy of it at the Strand over spring break. I had a feeling I would like this so I decided to save it as a reward for getting through something more difficult. ...
TLoDL is a perfectly adequate mystery, but this sort of thing will always remind me of Donna Tart's excellent _The Secret History_. Very few books benefit by the comparison.
I'm not going to finish this. 25% in and I'm bored as hell with it. Boring story, annoying protagonist, and the use of Latin so does not make this book worthy of a comparison with The Secret History. That's blasphemy.
The book starts out with our narrator Jane. Portions of the book are present day and told in first person and the rest in diary form. The journal portions read exactly like the present day. She is always the outsider looking in. The school is so cut off from the world that only vague references in s...
A disappointing, predictable novel made doubly frustrating because all the elements of a much better book are here. When "The Lake of Dead Languages" focuses on character and setting, and rouses Latin and Roman mythology to encourage the plot, the book is a success -- but major plot points and reve...
I was being a good girl and read it from front to back without cheating by peeking on the end just check if my guesses were true. This, I think, says much about how good it was written, not spectacularly good, but a comfort reading. I've done reading it in one day and enjoy almost every minute of it...
i give this a generous 2 stars because it got so much better toward the end, and because i found myself actually caring a bit about what happened to the characters, and not minding reading it. but this book started out very weakly. the writing picked up slightly throughout, but it was never all th...
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