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A review by midici
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
4.0
Lost Lake is about endings and beginnings, and how to find your way back home even when you think you're far too lost.
Lost Lake does contain some of the same whimsy as her other novels that I've read, but it also seems a lot more serious. Kate has just begun to crawl out of the despair of losing her husband when she spontaneously decides to visit a great aunt she hasn't seen in over a decade. Eby, owner of Lost Lake and its surrounding cottages, is being pressured to sell it off and takes Kate's arrival, along with her daughter Devin, as a sign. The other characters are a mix of regular cottage visitors, and the locals form the nearby town, all of whom start out trying to throw a goodbye party and end up realizing how much the lake - and Eby - mean to them.
Like all of Sarah Addison Allen's books, the characters all contain sparks of magic all their own: Kate who draws butterflies that come to life, Lisette whose written words can make or break a person, Selma who has eight charms that she uses to catch herself eight husbands, Devin who speaks to the Lake's crocodile uncovering the lost secrets of the lake...
Lost Lake does contain some of the same whimsy as her other novels that I've read, but it also seems a lot more serious. Kate has just begun to crawl out of the despair of losing her husband when she spontaneously decides to visit a great aunt she hasn't seen in over a decade. Eby, owner of Lost Lake and its surrounding cottages, is being pressured to sell it off and takes Kate's arrival, along with her daughter Devin, as a sign. The other characters are a mix of regular cottage visitors, and the locals form the nearby town, all of whom start out trying to throw a goodbye party and end up realizing how much the lake - and Eby - mean to them.
Like all of Sarah Addison Allen's books, the characters all contain sparks of magic all their own: Kate who draws butterflies that come to life, Lisette whose written words can make or break a person, Selma who has eight charms that she uses to catch herself eight husbands, Devin who speaks to the Lake's crocodile uncovering the lost secrets of the lake...