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Eden Lake (2011)

by Jane Roper(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0982708416 (ISBN13: 9780982708415)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Last Light Studio

review 1: I enjoyed this book about four marginally dysfunctional young adults whose parents founded an idealistic summer camp in Maine in their hippie years. Now these folks have to wrestle with running the camp when they haven't had a lot of success sticking with jobs or relationships in the past. In addition they have to handle some blows in their own families when a tragedy happens and when old transgressions become new information. I found the story to be compelling, but the characters mildly unsatisfying (though it may just be my age--I have this problem with many 20-something characters in contemporary fiction!). A good summer read!
review 2: I'm a long-time fan of this author's "mommy blog" and looked forward to enjoying her writing style in something more l... moreong-form. I was not disappointed. This book is essentially a character study, mainly focusing on siblings that grew up watching, attending, and then working a summer camp out east. There are a lot of layers, from comparisons between childhoods in the 70s and today, to commentary on commercialism, to explorations of trust, mistrust, fidelity and infidelity. And there's enough story to give the reader that "just one more chapter before I go to bed" momentum. A great summer read, but so much more than a beach read. less

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