Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen – 296 pages
Book Blurb:
Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it’s the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had her first almost-kiss at Lost Lake, and met a boy named Wes at Lost Lake. It was a place for dreaming. But Kate doesn’t believe in dreams anymore, and her Aunt Eby, Lost Lake’s owner, wants to sell the place and move on. Lost Lake’s magic is gone. As Kate discovers that time has a way of standing still at Lost Lake can she bring the cottages—and her heart—back to life? Because sometimes the things you love have a funny way of turning up again. And sometimes you never even know they were lost . . . until they are found.
My Review: 4 stars
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This book was just a small little charmer that was perfect as a palette cleanser of some dark, literary books that I had recently read. It came in from the library at the perfect time, as there were others in my TBR pile that I moved aside for this. Romance, magic, ghosts and good story telling are at the heart of this story. It’s a quick read, great for an afternoon or on vacation.
Quotes I liked:
The trick to getting through life, she’d told him, is not to resent it when it isn’t exactly how you think it should be.”
– “If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn’t get anywhere.”
– “I taught literature for nearly forty years. The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty. You know why? Because the endings changed. After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end. That’s what’s happening here.”
– “When your cup is empty, do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.”
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