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The Girl In The Lighthouse (2000)

by Roxane Tepfer Sanford(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1605942383 (ISBN13: 9781605942384)

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

Arrington

review 1: Lillian Arrington lived an isolated life on a remote lighthouse station with her father Garrett and her young mother Amelia. When her father is transferred to a new station, Lillian is anxious to meet the assistant keepers and their two sons, Heath and Ayden. Heath, the handsome teenage boy who desires to become a doctor someday, welcomes Lillian. However, his younger brother, Ayden, doesn't like her and she struggles to win him over. Before long, a secret bond between the three is forged and to Lillian's delight, they become close friends. However, her glorious days on Jasper Island are short-lived as her beautiful young mother begins a tragic descent into insanity and passes away. Lillian is left in the care of her sinister grandmother Eugenia Arrington, who, since the e... morend of the Civil War, continues to steadfastly hold onto the once glorious Georgia plantation known as Sutton Hall. It is there that the immoral secrets of Lillian's parents are revealed, and she is left to pick up the pieces of her scandalous past, and somehow, find her long way home.It is an intense story, but you have to read half of the book before it holds your interest.
review 2: I expected a coming-of-age story and a love triangle, but was surprised by the novel's dark undertones and unexpected plot twists. I thought I had added up all of the hints to the overarching secret correctly, but there were surprises until the very end. Lillian's decisions sometimes frustrated me, but her naïveté is balanced by her inner strength and will to survive. This book reminds me of A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness in that there were times I was unsure I would like the novel; however, I was drawn to keep reading and I'm looking forward to reading All That is Beautiful. less

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