Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

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I've had a bit of ADD when it came to reading lately. I started this book a while back...right after finishing the last one I posted about...and got about half way through and totally lost interest in reading. It wasn't a loss of interest in the story at all; just a general apathy toward sitting and reading. However, yesterday, the desire to read resurfaced, so I picked this up and finished it. It was a great story! Things I thought I had pegged wound up surprising me, which was nice, and there was even a somewhat Hitchcockian element to it that just intrigued me all the more.
My mom wants to read this, now that I'm done with it...I'll need to warn her about some language first, but I think she'll like the story. My brother's girlfriend, Caitlin, wants to read it too...I've already pointed her to Cecelia Ahern's writing & that just makes me happy!
I literally bought this book because I liked the cover. I do that every once in a while...I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but sometimes, the art just draws me in, and that's what happened here. I was not disappointed :-)
The story is set in the mid-1990s in Salem. It is a mystery...one that I truly think Hitchcock would have made into a masterpiece of a film...and it really is captivating. Even while I was so disinterested in reading, I kept thinking about what I'd read so far because I just kept trying to figure it out. I don't want to say too much, because I don't want to ruin the twists for anybody who might actually read this blog...but I will say that I enjoyed it and uttered quite a few gasps at the surprises. It was a fun read!