A review by bookanonjeff
The Lake Escape by Jamie Day

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

5.0

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.