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Lädt ... The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare (2022. Auflage)von Kimberly Brock (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book had SUCH potential, but it fell completely and utterly flat. It was one of those that's just intriguing enough to make you want to read more, whilst you keep re-assuring yourself that it will get better. Unfortunately, it never got better. The characters were fairly interesting, and the time period and backstory quite appealing, but the plot just plodded along. And once it finally wrapped up, the end was trite and cliched. No real secrets or mysteries were revealed, and several questions were left unanswered. *Sigh* Kimberly Brock made her novel too broad (historical fiction, romance, coming-of-age, grief, war, mystery), but failed to make it cohesive and interesting. I recommend Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series if you are interested in an author who masterfully combines several genres to produce a fantastic saga well worth your time. ( ) If this book had just stuck to the story of Alice, and her daughter, Penn, it would have been much stronger. Instead, Brock chose to make it more convoluted by throwing in their family history: they are descended from Eleanor Dare, the only survivor of the lost colony of Roanoake. And supposedly, Eleanor left behind a book that has been passed down through all the generations of female Dare descendents since 1585 through to 1945, when the book takes place. Or maybe the book was just the invention of Eleanor's mother? And there's a stone that she carved soemthing on, that was lost, but then found, but then lost again? This is where a started to get bogged down, and ultimately, I found that I just didn't care enough about this part of the story. I liked Penn and Alice as characters, though, and was interested enough to want to know what happened to them. Did Alice ever come to terms with her mother's mental illness and death? Was Penn able to get a fresh start and make friends? Were they able to come to terms with each other in the wake of Penn's father's death? There's more than enough there for a good story without the intrigue. FTC Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher in exchange for this review. TW/CW: Mental illness, family death, violent death of children, mild sexuality RATING: 3/5 REVIEW: The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare is about a mother and daughter who - in a will - are left a plantation in Savannah, Georgia. It is the home where the mother grew up, and while she has many reasons she doesn't wish to return, she does so for her daughter. Although they plan to sell the house and move on, being there draws them back into the past and into their relationships with each other, and the other women of their ancestry. This book didn't do much for me. I liked it a lot at the beginning, but then...well...nothing happened? Basically we were told the same stories over and over and there wasn't really anything interesting that happened. The book was nicely written, and there was some very nice use of words. I did like how the book concentrated a great deal on the female perspective. However, in the other vein, enslaved people and Native Americans were barely mentioned when they definitely should have been - this is a very white book. All in all, this wasn't a bad book, but I wouldn't recommend it - there are many better books out there. This was an interesting read of the Lost Colony of Roanoke in it's substance. For me the execution was a bit off. I would have liked to have had the story of Eleanor Dare up front, maybe even driving the story, to create some mystery/suspense. The historical side of this story felt like it showed up so late that it felt disconnected from the rest. Although I think true fans of historical fiction will find much to like and may even be happily satisfied. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Fiction.
Literature.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured commonplace book. Brought from England on Eleanor's fateful voyage to the New World, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it, but her mother's tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. In the waning days of World War II, Alice is a young widow and a mother herself when she is unexpectedly presented with her birthright: the deed to Evertell, her abandoned family home and the history she thought forgotten. Determined to sell the property and step into a future free of the past, Alice returns to Savannah with her own thirteen-year-old daughter, Penn, in tow. But when Penn's curiosity over the lineage she never knew begins to unveil secrets from beneath every stone and bone and shell of the old house and Eleanor's book is finally found, Alice is forced to reckon with the sacrifices made for love and the realities of their true inheritance as daughters of Eleanor Dare. In this sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brock, the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. Praise for The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare: "From the haunting first line, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare transports the reader to a mysterious land, time and family . . . the captivating women of the Dare legacy must find their true inheritance hiding behind the untold secrets." â??Patti Callahan, New York Times bestselling author Historical women's fiction Stand-alone novel Book length: approximately 135,000 wordsKeine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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