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3.51 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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I entered this story fully ready to engage with all the drama as 3 friends: Julia, David, & Erika converged with their respective families at the lake where they grew up. The tension was clear quickly with David having built a monstrosity of a glass home, blocking his friends' view of the lake (except through the house). When his extra young girlfriend disappears, the lake lore of disappearing women every 30 years becomes more concerning as does David's behavior. How well do they know him?
This story started well for me, but got a bit tangled with the 3 adult couples, 4 kids, & a nanny. That was a lot of names to keep in line. It also got a bit convoluted toward the end with too much happening for me to keep up. I felt like it may have been that I had lost enough steam to not care to work that hard.
The audio had multiple narrators which helped as the large cast needed differentiation.
All in all, not a complete win for me, but still a entertaining story if you can keep a list of characters like I did!
I entered this story fully ready to engage with all the drama as 3 friends: Julia, David, & Erika converged with their respective families at the lake where they grew up. The tension was clear quickly with David having built a monstrosity of a glass home, blocking his friends' view of the lake (except through the house). When his extra young girlfriend disappears, the lake lore of disappearing women every 30 years becomes more concerning as does David's behavior. How well do they know him?
This story started well for me, but got a bit tangled with the 3 adult couples, 4 kids, & a nanny. That was a lot of names to keep in line. It also got a bit convoluted toward the end with too much happening for me to keep up. I felt like it may have been that I had lost enough steam to not care to work that hard.
The audio had multiple narrators which helped as the large cast needed differentiation.
All in all, not a complete win for me, but still a entertaining story if you can keep a list of characters like I did!
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Your huge new house is blocking my lake view.
The house started off the not-so-good summer for the life long friends, and it wasn't the worst thing that happened or that was discovered.
Julia, David, and Erika have spent summers at the lake all their lives.
Everyone has changed and everyone has secrets as we meet two new characters this year - David's young girlfriend, Fiona, and the nanny, Izzy, for David's four-year-old twins.
When David's girlfriend goes missing the first night she is there, everyone wonders if the lake claimed her like it did two other girls more than thirty years ago.
And who deleted the security footage from the exact time Fiona went missing.
How is this summer going to turn out?
Will there be another victim?
What other information will surface?
Find out in this slow moving read with a lot of characters to keep track of and characters with secrets and agendas of their own. 4/5
Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
The house started off the not-so-good summer for the life long friends, and it wasn't the worst thing that happened or that was discovered.
Julia, David, and Erika have spent summers at the lake all their lives.
Everyone has changed and everyone has secrets as we meet two new characters this year - David's young girlfriend, Fiona, and the nanny, Izzy, for David's four-year-old twins.
When David's girlfriend goes missing the first night she is there, everyone wonders if the lake claimed her like it did two other girls more than thirty years ago.
And who deleted the security footage from the exact time Fiona went missing.
How is this summer going to turn out?
Will there be another victim?
What other information will surface?
Find out in this slow moving read with a lot of characters to keep track of and characters with secrets and agendas of their own. 4/5
Thank you to the publisher for a copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Complex Web Of Secrets. You're in your 30's/ 40's or so - old enough to have mid teen kids yourself - and you've been going to the same lake houses for literally decades at this point with the same neighbor families, so you've effectively grown up with these people. Considered them close friends. Perhaps even family. You know you know them.
But do you? Do they know you? Do you as a collective know all the secrets the lake - or even the houses you've come to all these years - may hold?
You have your secrets. They have theirs. The lake has its.
All is about to be revealed...
(Yeah, yeah. I don't normally do a version of a description for a review, but seriously, *for this book*, I think the above is largely the best way to do the review. There are elements here that some will love and some will hate - there are a lot of characters and at least a few different narrators here, and the book takes over 350 pages to tell a somewhat simple (at a high level at least) tale. Breakneck action, this is not. But it *was* a *really* good tale of relatable friends and family... even when some of them are pretty open scumbags. The tale is rather dark, and there are no white knights to be had here. Just a group of people doing the best they can in rather interesting and stressful situations. So give this book a chance, read it, and write your own review and let us know what *you* thought about it.)
Very much recommended.
But do you? Do they know you? Do you as a collective know all the secrets the lake - or even the houses you've come to all these years - may hold?
You have your secrets. They have theirs. The lake has its.
All is about to be revealed...
(Yeah, yeah. I don't normally do a version of a description for a review, but seriously, *for this book*, I think the above is largely the best way to do the review. There are elements here that some will love and some will hate - there are a lot of characters and at least a few different narrators here, and the book takes over 350 pages to tell a somewhat simple (at a high level at least) tale. Breakneck action, this is not. But it *was* a *really* good tale of relatable friends and family... even when some of them are pretty open scumbags. The tale is rather dark, and there are no white knights to be had here. Just a group of people doing the best they can in rather interesting and stressful situations. So give this book a chance, read it, and write your own review and let us know what *you* thought about it.)
Very much recommended.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I first read The Block Party and was hesitant to read this one cause I thought that one was just ok. Lots of twists and turns that you don’t necessarily see coming. I’ll definitely go back and read this author’s other book that I haven’t read.
fast-paced
A big thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with the chance to read and review this novel.
Julia is looking forward to her vacation at Lake Timmeny in Vermont. Her husband, Christian, and daughter, Taylor, are staying with her in her family’s lake house. Julia can’t wait to reconnect with her childhood friends, Erika and David. Erika’s husband, Rick and son, Lucas are staying in the house next door to Julia. David’s house is directly opposite, and Julia is horrified to arrive and see that David has renovated the entire house and it is all windows. David is there with his new girlfriend, Fiona, and his twins along with a new nanny, Izzie.
When everyone wakes up the second morning they are there, they discover that Fiona is missing. The tales of the “Lake Lore” start coming up. Two women disappeared exactly 30 years apart. When human bones are found nearby, questions arise as to whether the bones belong to one of the missing women. Could Fiona’s disappearance be a third woman also 30 years apart?
Izzie has her own reasons for being on the lake and it isn’t to be a nanny to five-year-old twins. As she and Taylor form a friendship, Izzie becomes more and more leery of David. Did David do something sinister to Fiona?
Told in the point of view between Julia and Izzie, you get a good feel of the full story. There is a lot going on in the book and each character has a hidden secret.
I’ve read Jamie Day’s other books and none of them are to be missed – they are all definite must reads!
Julia is looking forward to her vacation at Lake Timmeny in Vermont. Her husband, Christian, and daughter, Taylor, are staying with her in her family’s lake house. Julia can’t wait to reconnect with her childhood friends, Erika and David. Erika’s husband, Rick and son, Lucas are staying in the house next door to Julia. David’s house is directly opposite, and Julia is horrified to arrive and see that David has renovated the entire house and it is all windows. David is there with his new girlfriend, Fiona, and his twins along with a new nanny, Izzie.
When everyone wakes up the second morning they are there, they discover that Fiona is missing. The tales of the “Lake Lore” start coming up. Two women disappeared exactly 30 years apart. When human bones are found nearby, questions arise as to whether the bones belong to one of the missing women. Could Fiona’s disappearance be a third woman also 30 years apart?
Izzie has her own reasons for being on the lake and it isn’t to be a nanny to five-year-old twins. As she and Taylor form a friendship, Izzie becomes more and more leery of David. Did David do something sinister to Fiona?
Told in the point of view between Julia and Izzie, you get a good feel of the full story. There is a lot going on in the book and each character has a hidden secret.
I’ve read Jamie Day’s other books and none of them are to be missed – they are all definite must reads!
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Lake Escape by Jamie Day
Narrated by Lisa Larsen, Phoebe Strole
Julia, David, and Erika spent their summers together at the Vermont lake homes of their families thirty and more years ago. Since their teen years they've been through so much, together and apart, and things have not always been smooth sailing. Still, each of them look forward to their summer vacations at their summer homes although their friendships are going to sink to the bottom of the lake once all kinds of things come to the surface.
For one, David has rebuilt his home so it blocks the lake views of Julia and Erika. Julia is furious, why doesn't Erika care? Plus David has brought another of his endless parade of younger and younger girlfriends to the lake and this one is WAY too young and immature for David. There there is the brand new nanny because David has run through his supply of former nannies somehow. Plus there are the fears about two women going missing after a certain number of years. Is it time for that to happen again?
We get two POVs, that of Julia and that of the nanny, nineteen year old Izzy. I liked them both, Julia seemed to be the most reasonable and down to earth of the older trio. Izzy is a smart, conscientious teen, and her parts were the parts I liked best. She was funny, a bit snarky, but really trying to do the best she could as a nanny with no nanny skills other than watching Mary Poppins every year. She has never even babysat before and now she's got two rambunctious and more than a little spoiled twins on her hands. And she's really there for another reason but can't let anyone know the real reason she is there.
Pretty quickly bad things happen and also bad things are found out, and also bad things are confessed. Lots of bad things. I just sat back and watched (and listened to) the great big Titanic size mess run into the iceberg that had been growing for a very long time. Who, if any one, will come out with their heads above water by the time this story is over? I was fortunate enough to have both the ebook and the audiobook and both are good ways to go with this story. I did really enjoy listening to the narrator of Izzy, she really put life in the part and sounded like the smart and curious teenager she's portraying.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC
Narrated by Lisa Larsen, Phoebe Strole
Julia, David, and Erika spent their summers together at the Vermont lake homes of their families thirty and more years ago. Since their teen years they've been through so much, together and apart, and things have not always been smooth sailing. Still, each of them look forward to their summer vacations at their summer homes although their friendships are going to sink to the bottom of the lake once all kinds of things come to the surface.
For one, David has rebuilt his home so it blocks the lake views of Julia and Erika. Julia is furious, why doesn't Erika care? Plus David has brought another of his endless parade of younger and younger girlfriends to the lake and this one is WAY too young and immature for David. There there is the brand new nanny because David has run through his supply of former nannies somehow. Plus there are the fears about two women going missing after a certain number of years. Is it time for that to happen again?
We get two POVs, that of Julia and that of the nanny, nineteen year old Izzy. I liked them both, Julia seemed to be the most reasonable and down to earth of the older trio. Izzy is a smart, conscientious teen, and her parts were the parts I liked best. She was funny, a bit snarky, but really trying to do the best she could as a nanny with no nanny skills other than watching Mary Poppins every year. She has never even babysat before and now she's got two rambunctious and more than a little spoiled twins on her hands. And she's really there for another reason but can't let anyone know the real reason she is there.
Pretty quickly bad things happen and also bad things are found out, and also bad things are confessed. Lots of bad things. I just sat back and watched (and listened to) the great big Titanic size mess run into the iceberg that had been growing for a very long time. Who, if any one, will come out with their heads above water by the time this story is over? I was fortunate enough to have both the ebook and the audiobook and both are good ways to go with this story. I did really enjoy listening to the narrator of Izzy, she really put life in the part and sounded like the smart and curious teenager she's portraying.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio, St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC
Honestly just bored so far. Rich people with first world problems but boring