The second time I opened the book, I did so at the urging of other bloggers, who advised me that Dept. It was an odd, jolting manner of storytelling. I didn't like the dislocated style: a paragraph or two about the protagonist as her romance progresses through marriage and child to affair with factoids (some seemingly random, some relevant) interspersed throughout. The first time I opened it, I gave up in frustration. of Speculation by Jenny Offill has gotten a lot of gushy praise.

I hope she will live a long, long time and write many more books.ĭept. Lost Lake is an especially meaningful release because it's Sarah's first published novel since her battle with late-stage breast cancer ended in remission.

As usual, Sarah Addison Allen has succeeded at telling a lovely, wise, heartwarming story with her own special touch of magic. I closed the book with little joyful tears streaming down my face. Eventually, though, I got over myself and was swept away. Highly recommended - I had a little trouble getting into Lost Lake because Kate sounded a bit too much like me in some of her pains and yearnings but with the advantages of youth and money to change her life.

And, there's an alligator who talks to Devin. There's a wonderful hodge-podge of characters in Lost Lake: Selma, who seems bitter about the special charms which have helped her acquire (but not keep) a large number of husbands Lisette, a French woman Eby once saved and who is unable to speak Jack, a guest who is painfully shy and in love with Lisette Buhladeen, who is everyone's friend and comes up with the idea to host a goodbye party for Eby Wes, the boy Kate spent her last best summer with, now a grown man who is wounded by his dark past: Lazlo, the wealthy developer who wants to tear down the cabins to create a new development. Kate spent the last, best summer of her life at Lost Lake and now she has a sudden urge to return.Īt Lost Lake, she finds that her widowed Aunt Eby is on the verge of selling her business to travel the world but Eby's hesitant to say goodbye to Lost Lake for good. On the day Kate and her daughter Devin are due to move in with Kate's mother-in-law, Cricket, she 'wakes up' after finding a postcard from her Aunt Eby's lakeside cabin business, Lost Lake. Kate has spent her first year as a widow in a daze.

It took me about 4 or 5 days to locate a copy and then I spent the next evening gobbling the book down. I've read all of her books and rushed out and find a copy of Lost Lake during release week. Lost Lake is the latest release by Sarah Addison Allen. I need to do some catch-up, so it's mini review time, again.

Lost lake by sarah addison allen