Title: Daughters of the Lake

Author: Wendy Webb

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing 2018

Genre: Thriller

Pages: 319

Rating: 3/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Ebook

After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents’ home on Lake Superior to pull herself together—only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the shallows. Tucked in the folds of the woman’s curiously vintage gown is an infant, as cold and at peace as its mother. No one can identify the woman. Except for Kate. She’s seen her before. In her dreams…

One hundred years ago, a love story ended in tragedy, its mysteries left unsolved. It’s time for the lake to give up its secrets. As each mystery unravels, it pulls Kate deeper into the eddy of a haunting folktale that has been handed down in whispers over generations. Now, it’s Kate’s turn to listen.

As the drowned woman reaches out from the grave, Kate reaches back. They must come together, if only in dreams, to right the sinister wrongs of the past.

I really wanted to like this book. The opening chapter is amazing and very very intriguing. I was sucked into the story very quickly. But then, things just started going off the rails. I was constantly annoyed by the the characters randomly stopping and drifting off into memories every so often. It was so clunky and really pulled me out of the present narrative so that when the character came back to the present, I had to really remind myself where we were in the story. Annoying. Beyond the writing style, I was ultimately bored with the story and the characters. The constant references to the various ghosts wasn’t really intriguing; it was a weird intrusion. Overall, I was just bored of the book.

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