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Lädt ... The Beloved Girlsvon Harriet Evans
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This story follows Janey who is invited to stay with a family friend of her father. A few years later she goes again to stay with the family and something happens during a ritual called The Collecting. I was drawn to the book as it has things I like, a house, a ritual and a very odd family. The story is told from different timelines and follows mostly Janey but does switch to other characters. Sounds confusing but I did manage to keep up. The majority of the story follows Janey on her second visit to the family. I did enjoy most of the story. I found the Hunter family quite interesting because they were a little odd. Things are explained and it does all make sense. I also liked the idea of the little ritual they have called The Collecting and the bees. Again things like this appeal to me. What I did find however was that the book overall ended up being a bit long. A lot of the story was building up to the ritual and from early on in the story it is revealed that something happened. It would have been better for me if nothing is said early on and I was left to the guess work. I did enjoy most of the book. I enjoy stories set in big houses with secrets, very much like Kate Morton. This book didn't quite make the mark for me and I felt it was building up to something, which part I already knew and just fizzled out towards the end. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"It's a funny old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an old chapel, in the grounds of the house. It's half-derelict. The Hunters keep bees in there. Every year, on the same day, the family processes to the chapel. They open the combs, taste the honey. Take it back to the house. Half for them -" my father winced, as though he had bitten down on a sore tooth. "And half for us." Catherine, a successful barrister, vanishes from a train station on the eve of her anniversary. Is it because she saw a figure - someone she believed long dead? Or was it a shadow cast by her troubled, fractured mind? The answer lies buried in the past. It lies in the events of the hot, seismic summer of 1989, at Vanes - a mysterious West Country manor house - where a young girl, Jane Lestrange, arrives to stay with the gilded, grand Hunter family, and where a devastating tragedy will unfold. Over the summer, as an ancient family ritual looms closer, Janey falls for each member of the family in turn. She and Kitty, the eldest daughter of the house, will forge a bond that decades later, is still shaping the present . . . 'We need the bees to survive, and they need us to survive. Once you understand that, you understand the history of Vanes, you understand our family.' Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I really wanted to like this book. It had an interesting premise and some review blurbs suggested it had a slight Gothic tone to it, which made it sound even more intriguing. Unfortunately, this book fell flat. I had a very hard time staying interested in it and took me an age to finish it. Then once I finally made it to the end, it was too understated, and anticlimactic. The old rituals and the ditty that accompanied it was overdone and just didn’t make all that much sense to me.
This one didn’t work for me, but it seems to be well received overall by others, overall, so you might have better luck with it than I did.
2 stars ( )