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  • The Lake of Dreams

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  • Written by: Kim Edwards
  • Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
  • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Lake of Dreams

Written by: Kim Edwards
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
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Publisher's Summary

The highly anticipated new novel from the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

With revelations that prove as captivating as the deceptions at the heart of her best-selling phenomenon The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards now gives us the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family's rambling lakeside house, she discovers, locked in a window seat, a collection of objects that first appear to be useless curiosities, but soon reveal a deeper and more complex family past. As Lucy discovers and explores the traces of her lineage00from an heirloom tapestry and dusty political tracts to a web of allusions depicted in stained-glass windows throughout upstate New York-the family story she has always known is shattered, Lucy's quest for the truth reconfigures her family's history, links her to a unique slice of the suffragette movement, and yields dramatic insights that embolden her to live freely. With surprises at every turn, brimming with vibrant detail, The Lake of Dreams is an arresting saga in which every element emerges as a carefully place piece of the puzzle that's sure to enthrall the millions of readers who loved The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

©2010 Kim Edwards (P)2010 Penguin

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Enjoyable story

I enjoyed the story and also listening to the narrator who had a very peaceful voice.

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  • 2023-11-24

Frustrating Book

This is a book I would have enjoyed more had I actually read it. The story is good, although it is not fully realised. There is a significant mystery, which becomes buried in far too many details of the main character's inner monologue. The story if flowery - unnecessarily so - and the main character is self-absorbed, not to be confused with self-reflective, leaving no room for character development of the other, maybe more important characters.

The narration was frustrating; the narrator does not have enough range to differentiate the characters, so monologues and conversations blend together in a confusing way. Impossible to tell where one conversation, or section, or scene changes. One has the impression the main character is always speaking/thinking.

The story had so much potential to be an absolute ripper, but a huge, important event was revealed very, very late in the story and was glossed over in a most unbelievable way.

In short, I wanted badly to re-write this book to properly encapsulate what are two pretty distinct stories, and to give the characters their appropriate, important voices.

There is so much of this book that is unnecessary, and scenes that are somewhat irrelevant, or far too prolonged, that the core of the story is lost in a lot of white noise. I finished the book because I had a six-hour drive to fill, but otherwise would have returned it forthwith.

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