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Title: On Mystic Lake (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
ISBN: 0345471172
Author:
Kristin Hannah
Publicate Date: 2004-04-27
Publish: 2004-04-27
List Price: $13.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: A Beautiful Love Story
This is a lovely story about love and loss. Kristin Hannah has a wonderful way of weaving a story and developing characters. I felt particularly connected to Annie and her journey of love, betrayal, and self-discovery. While this story may have been a bit predictable, it was incredibly tender and sweet. This was my second KH book (Firefly Lane--VERY good!), and most certainly not the last.
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2: On Mystic Lake
On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah was a cut above most contemporary romances. It is a story about a wealthy 39 year-old Stamford graduate (heroine) who finds herself dumped by her handsome, successful but unfaithful husband, after 20 years of marriage. After dropping their 17 year old daughter Natalie at the airport for her senior year in England, Annie's husband, Blake tells her he wants a divorce and he is in love with an attorney from his office.
Annie winds up going back to the small town where she grew up and she rekindles a relationship with a guy from her past. Somewhat commonplace and predictable, BUT the writing style was more engaging than most romance dribble out there.
Better than your average romance novel.
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3: storyteller
After her husband unexpectedly asks for a divorce Annie Colwater returns to her home town to think things through. Nick Delacroix was her first love. His wife has recently died and Annie takes over the job of babysitting his daughter Izzy. Nick is a cop and stays out way too late, drinks too much and pretty much ignores his daughter because he can't deal with his own pain. The part I thought was most interesting was concerning Izzy. She felt that she was disappearing. Her fingers, her hand, her arm. She really believed that she was slowly becoming invisible. Maybe from the lack of love and attention from her one remaining parent. She did see her mother as a beautiful ghost by the water and spoke to her several times. As Izzy became more confident and her father began to really see her again, her fingers began to reappear little by little. Very interesting premise! I enjoyed this book very much. The family dynamics were so real and so relative to our times. Children feeling lost and disappearing right before our eyes. Only love brought Izzy back.
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4: good story
i loved this story of love lost and found. kh is wonderful getting the feelings down pat. the only point i did not like in the book is where she names her daughter after her lovers dead wife, even if she was her best friend. nick chose kathy over annie when they were young. i think that i would be very uncomfortable with kathleen as a first name, maybe the middle name. it just doesn't feel right.
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5: Better than I expected!
I picked this book up at a vacation rental we were staying this summer for something to read while I was there for the week, it's not normally what I'd pick out to read. I started reading it on the beach, and totally got sucked in! FInished it within a few days. I'm normally hard to please, hard to find a book to keep my focus and keep me entertained, but there were enough trials/tribulations/and twists to keep me going. I really identified with the emotions and thoughts of the Annie, the main character. All the characters really grew on me and I'm wishing there'd be a sequel!
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