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A review by jacki_f
The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol
3.0
This is the story of a family who live on an island on Lake Superior in the 1930s and run the lighthouse. There are two sons and twin daughters, Emily and Elizabeth. Emily and Elizabeth are incredibly close despite the fact that Emily is mute. At some stage the family fractured and now, 70 years later, Elizabeth is blind and living in a retirement home where she makes friends with a local teenager named Morgan. Morgan helps Elizabeth by reading aloud to her from old family journals and gradually Elizabeth tells her about her youth and its secrets and mysteries (of which there are plenty). So the story moves between the past and the (less interesting) present.
I thought this book was ok - it's an easy read, it's a nicely told story - but I also felt like I'd read it before. It is an original story, but there are lots of elements that reminded me of different books I've read. I liked the depictions of life on the island which felt very atmospheric.
Usually when a book has dual storylines you know that there are going to come together at some point and that is the case with this one but it requires a massive and unlikely coincidence.
I thought this book was ok - it's an easy read, it's a nicely told story - but I also felt like I'd read it before. It is an original story, but there are lots of elements that reminded me of different books I've read. I liked the depictions of life on the island which felt very atmospheric.
Usually when a book has dual storylines you know that there are going to come together at some point and that is the case with this one but it requires a massive and unlikely coincidence.