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Lädt ... The Tale of Halcyon Crane: A Novel (2010. Auflage)von Wendy Webb
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Meh. A good story, but not a well told one. In the author's defence, I think it's her first book, published about 12 years ago and the only one published by Henry Holt (I believe all the rest of her books are published by an Amazon subsidiary). The premise of the story is a gripping one: when Hallie was 5, her father faked her and his deaths, spiriting her away to the other side of the country, convincing her that her mother died in a house fire where everything was lost. He gets away with it for over 30 years, until early-onset Alzheimer's sets in and a picture of him and Hallie end up in the newspaper honouring him for his dedicated teaching career. Her mother, thinking her dead all these years, finds out, only to write her a letter, conveniently change her will, and die of a heart attack, leaving Hallie the sole heir of a mother she thought long dead and never got to meet. A day later, her father passes too. This is where the book begins, with Hallie heading to the island in Lake Superior, devastated and in shock and wondering why her perfect and adored father would have committed such a crime. This is definitely a ghost story, unlike my first Wendy Webb (also the most recent, I believe). It's just not a very spooky one, although it definitely should be; the crap that went down in that house should have made me hair stand on end. But it didn't. This also tries to be a romance. I like both the characters and I don't doubt they fell in loved and lived happily ever after, but I wasn't moved by it. I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be an element of suspense, but I never felt suspended. I was pretty certain I knew who Iris was, and although I was correct, there is a twist at the end I didn't anticipate at all. It should have been more shocking than it was, and instead it just left me surprised; a 'huh' instead of a 'holy crap!'. Like I said, a lot of good elements, but executed clumsily. I feel like, had this story been written by someone like Simone St. James, I'd have had to sleep with the lights on for a week. Instead, I'm not sure I'll remember much of it by the time I go to sleep tonight. My full review can be found on my blog: https://suspensebookreviews.home.blog/2021/08/19/the-tale-of-halcyon-crane-by-we... keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Früher oder später erwachen die Geister der Vergangenheit... Ein schicksalhafter Brief und ein unerwartetes Erbe führen Hallie James auf die Spuren ihrer Vergangenheit und die kleine Insel Grand Manitou im Süden Kanadas. Dort lebte bis vor Kurzem die berühmte Fotografin Madlyn Crane ? Hallies Mutter ?, von der sie glaubte, sie sei seit über dreißig Jahren tot. Mitten im November kommt sie auf der von Unwettern umtosten Insel an, wo düstere Familiengeheimnisse warten, denen sich die junge Frau nun stellen muss. Und auch die Liebe geht seltsame Wege auf dieser Insel ? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorWendy Webbs Buch The Tale of Halcyon Crane wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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