Title: The Lake House by Kate Morton Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication Date: October 2016 Genre: Historical Fiction / Mystery Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are …
For a number of different reasons, I didn’t manage to blog many of my book reviews last month, so I have decided to do a round-up instead. I read five books to complete the Aussie Winter Reading Challenge: The Good Daughter by Honey Brown (Mystery): Rebecca Toyer and Zach Kincaid each live …
When I first read about The Windup Girl I knew it was a book I wanted to get. The story starts off slow and confusing, but picks up in the middle. Once you learn the terminology, the history, the companies, and the people involved, it begins to make a lot more sense and the pieces of the puzzle click together.
Vigil wasn’t at all what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised. The story takes place in a modified version of Brisbane which has both the normal human elements as well as those of the Weyrd. It follows Verity’s investigation into the Weyrd’s involvement in the disappearance of normal human children, including a more personal element, and becomes more complex with added layers of intrigue as the novel progresses.
The Patterson girls are reunited at Christmas in their home town of Meadow Brook in South Australia. They are their to help their father who is grieving the loss of their mother and struggling with running the family motel. It is here that the four sisters uncover a curse bestowed upon the family generations before. The sisters then part to return to their lives, or start new ones with the curse running through their minds and affecting their decisions. The story does drag a little in the middle, but that’s because we are given four characters to follow. For most of them, the curse weighs on their minds and they react in ways that aren’t entirely rational.
This is the first novel I have read by Australian Author Tom Keneally, and I picked it up after being recommended it by another lady browsing the same section of the book store.
