Kimberly N. (kimberlyrav) - , reviewed on 1/17/2018 + 417 more book reviews

I dont like giving Susanna Kearsley 3 stars on anything. A previous book I read by her, hooked me and I instantly fell in love with her writing, her characters and settings ect. This book seemed to be written by someone else. It does have a familiarity to her other books, but only slight. I did not like 2 books in one. I am not a historical buff so the book the character in the story was writing was very boring to me. In fact, I skimmed a lot of it. I was more interested in the main character and what she might do, which wasn't much. I kept waiting for something to happen, it never did. I did not like this book. It was way too long and it was a bad idea to have 2 books rolling.

The whole book in a nutshell is that our main character stays in a cottage, dank, musty, dark and writes a book. Gets phone calls, goes out briefly, talks to the man and his sons who own the cottage every now and again and then she keeps writing that horrid book. She mysteriously has a premonition about her ancestors, which turns out to be all true, every word, every object in its place and that all comes out in the book she is writing. Its improbable and quite silly.

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