Review: Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

5 stars for Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen.

Good news come in pairs. Following the 5-star rating of Seven Up by Janet Evanovich, I am thrilled to present and share another 5 stars review here.

Lost Lake, a mix of old world charm set in the outback of time lost, gives a nostalgic magical feel. The author takes time to carve out each of the characters in the book, dedicating attributes to suit the various personalities while providing detailed background history to account for the way the characters think and behave as they do in present day.

I love it that the characters have their own stories to tell:-

(1) Kate, Matt and their 8-year old daughter, Devin
(2) Eby and her husband, George
(3) Marilee (Eby’s sister)
(4) Lisette (Eby’s friend)
(5) Wes and his younger brother, Billy (Eby’s neighbours)
(6) Cricket (Kate’s mother-in-law)
(7) Lazlo (Wes’s uncle)
(8) Bulahdeen, Selma, Jack (the faithful trio who spend every summer for the past thirty years at Lost Lake)

For generations, the Morris women are never able to get out of this curse that runs in the family. The women fall in love, get married and rely on their husbands for each and every need. So utterly dependent on their significant other that when their husbands leave for the greater beyond, all if not most of the Morris women fall prey to that dark place filled with grief and are never the same ever again.

In present day Atlanta, Georgia, 27-year old Kate, one of the Morris women finally wakes up from her one-year slumber to start life anew. In the middle of house moving, she finds a postcard; a postcard that prompts a road trip to Lost Lake, in Suley, near the Florida border. Little did Kate know that her impulsive decision for an adventure to Lost Lake sets off a chain of events and turns her into a harbinger of the lake house belonging to her great-aunt Eby.

On a final note, I am relieved to learn that the author has emerged the winner in her battle against advanced stage breast cancer since her diagnosis in 2011. And I am very glad that the coming and going of it all has not dampened her writing spirit and stopped her from continuing to spin such beautiful, mesmerising tale - Lost Lake.

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Publication date: 21 Jan 2014

*** Favourite quote ***

There was no going back after that. There was nothing to do but let those words sweep them through the years and land them solidly back in the present, older, wiser, different.

~ Lost Lake
Sarah Addison Allen

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Sometimes you find the things you've lost in the most unexpected places. But sometimes you find them exactly where you left them. Welcome to magical Lost Lake, Georgia.

*Blurb from author's website

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