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A review by zarlina
The Lake House by Kate Morton
4.0
Judging by the reviews I've read on this book I think it was good that it was the first one by Kate Morton that I read. My sister's been telling me over and over to read them, (or rather, listen to them on Audible) so eventually I did, and even though it took me pretty long to get through the whole thing, I liked it quite a lot.
I must admit that unlike many others who I've seen review this one, I thought the first half of it, if not more even, was pretty slow and boring. I had problems keeping up with the characters, what year it was and who they were talking about for quite a while. There were so many names, and sometimes it would be back when they were kids and then they were grown up and it jumped back and forth a lot and so many different ones that it took me quite a while to figure out who was who, and what part they had in the story, eventually I got a hang of it, and when the clues started to make me come up with my own suspicions I finally started to get a lot more curious about how it would all fit together in the end.
The ending to the mystery was, in my opinion, pretty brilliant. I found myself shouting "What?!" Out loud quite a few times at that final conversation between the characters that would eventually lead to all the answers they were looking for, and when that part was over I was left out of breath. Which is absolutely amazing, I love getting that kind of feeling when I read (listen to) a book.
However. The very end was too perfect to me. I don't like the fairy tale kind of endings where everything is sweet and sugar. It was a bit too perfect, and the epilogue, together with the confusion I felt in the beginning, is what took this book down to four stars instead of five. I didn't like it at all, and I think the story would've been much better without it.
But it was still a book I'm very happy I got through, and I'm looking forward to download another of Kate Morton's books to my library in the future.
I must admit that unlike many others who I've seen review this one, I thought the first half of it, if not more even, was pretty slow and boring. I had problems keeping up with the characters, what year it was and who they were talking about for quite a while. There were so many names, and sometimes it would be back when they were kids and then they were grown up and it jumped back and forth a lot and so many different ones that it took me quite a while to figure out who was who, and what part they had in the story, eventually I got a hang of it, and when the clues started to make me come up with my own suspicions I finally started to get a lot more curious about how it would all fit together in the end.
The ending to the mystery was, in my opinion, pretty brilliant. I found myself shouting "What?!" Out loud quite a few times at that final conversation between the characters that would eventually lead to all the answers they were looking for, and when that part was over I was left out of breath. Which is absolutely amazing, I love getting that kind of feeling when I read (listen to) a book.
However. The very end was too perfect to me. I don't like the fairy tale kind of endings where everything is sweet and sugar. It was a bit too perfect, and the epilogue, together with the confusion I felt in the beginning, is what took this book down to four stars instead of five. I didn't like it at all, and I think the story would've been much better without it.
But it was still a book I'm very happy I got through, and I'm looking forward to download another of Kate Morton's books to my library in the future.