The Girl On Legare Street (Tradd Street, #2)

The Girl On Legare Street (Tradd Street #2)

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In this sequel to "The House On Tradd Street," when Melanie Middleton was seven years old her mother, Ginnette, left home, abandoning her husband and her daughter. Now, nearly thirty-three years later, Ginnette has returned to Charleston, South Carolina, to confront her past and make amends with the daughter she left behind. Melanie is less than thrilled when her mother re

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Cheryl
Okay -- as the second in what appears to be a new mystery series this is a very good story. I love the setting (Charleston, SC), the old house element and best of all the ghost story. I am a sucker for a good ghost story and Karen White has this wonderful (and, I think very difficult) ability to build a really, really spooky environment.

But ... while I really liked the characters in the first of the series, the whole relationship between real estate agent extraordinaire and reluctant "medium" M...more
Courtney
The second book in the Tradd Street series, this story introduces Melanie's mother and a mystery surrounding the house Melanie grew up in. This mystery was a tad more convoluted than the first (assumed identities!) and it seemed that the spirits were stronger and more physical.

I didn't like the evil overtone of one of the spirits or how strongly Melanie's mother felt them. This book crept closer to the line between this world and the occult than I usually like.

Melanie was irritatingly wishy-wash...more
Kristen
I really like the characters in this series by Karen White! The ghostly presence and spooky happenings give the story a wonderfully gothic feel, even though it all takes place in present-day Charleston.

The story is quite exciting, and White is adept at leading you by the nose down what you are very certain is one clearly-marked path of storyline, before unceremoniously pulling a one-eighty on you and shoving you down a completely different route!

One note: you really need to read the first book...more
Sheila
Second book in the Tradd Street series and the second book I have read by this author. Melanie is a successful real estate agent but was traumatized when her mother left her father and her when Melanie was 8 yrs, to pursue a sucessful career as an opera singer. Both Melanie and her mother have the ability to see and talk with ghosts. Her mother has not been a part of her life for over 30 years but now Ginette, is moving back to town and wants to reconnect with Melanie. Ginette wants to buy Melan...more
Emily
I'm not okay with this book.

It's the sequel to The House on Tradd Street. Melanie Middleton and Jack Treholm need to solve another ghost-related mystery. Plus this time Melanie's mother has come back from a 30+ year absence to help them as well.

This is a good story. I like the ghost story aspect(that isn't too scary). I especially like that Melanie's ability is a given-a lot of books spend time focusing on the main character not knowing she had this ability, realizing, coming to terms with it, e...more
Kris Irvin
Either I'm a supergenius, or Karen White severely underestimates her readers. The mystery in this book is a pretty poor excuse for a puzzle - I had the main part of it figured out less than 100 pages in. After that, it became tedious as the characters keep questioning this great mystery! it's such a puzzle! what does it mean?! And I am sitting here, rolling my eyes and banging my head against the wall and calling them idiots.

I am also not impressed with Melanie. In the first book, she had her o...more
Anita
Despite being part of a series (which I didn't realize till I started reading it) and despite the author's penchant for raised eyebrows (someone is always raising one eyebrow as a response in literally every conversation), this is a super enjoyable read. It's got everything- suspense, ghosts, at least 4 mysteries to try to figure out... and witty writing for the most part. The main character can be annoying, I mean how can anyone be 40 and also be too vain to wear eyeglasses?! To the point where...more
Cheryl C.
Those who enjoyed Melanie Middleton and Jack Trenholm in The House on Tradd Street will definitely want to pick up the next book in this series, The Girl on Legare Street.

Melanie Middleton's mother abandoned her when she was just a child, leaving her with a father she was forced to take care of through his bouts of excessive drinking. Now Ginnette Prioleau Middleton has returned to Charleston and moved into their ancestral home on Legare Street. She seeks Melanie's help to restore the historical...more
Laurie
I’m conflicted about this book. On the one hand, it’s a ghost story with a pretty decent plot-an evil ghost trying to get back what she feels is hers, a good ghost protecting people, a mother and daughter trying to establish a relationship after the mother abandoned the daughter 30 years before, a reporter who isn’t just what she says she is. On the other hand, there are some very slow moving parts, and the main character, 39 year old Melanie, is bent on denying her attraction to Jack, the man w...more
Literary Feline
Rainy days seem to be particularly perfect for a ghost story, and so what better time to dive into The Girl on Legare Street by Karen White than a stormy evening? I first met Melanie Middleton a year ago, when I read The House on Tradd Street, when she inherited an old house and met true crime author Jack Trenholm. A realist and practical minded person, Melanie tried her hardest for years to ignore the voices of the dead who were speaking to her, but events in her life have made that impossible....more
Loraine
Again, Karen White entertains me, even if I figured out the secret well before it was puzzled out by Melanie (aka Mellie), Jack, Ginnette (Mellie's estranged mother), and a reporter by the name of Rebecca Edgerton. One really needs to have read The House On Tradd Street in order to understand the context within which this brush with the spirits is set. The bits of coastal history in the 18th and 19th centuries piqued my curiosity about wreckers and pirates along the southern coastline of this co...more
Babs
I really was impatient with the heroine of this series, Melanie Middleton, in the first book. Yes, her mother went away without her and abandoned her with no explanation or reason; her father raised her, but her childhood was anything but happy. Her father dissolved into alcoholism and Melanie had to be the stronger person and make sure he could get up, compose himself and go to work and uphold his responsibilities.

Yes, while I did not live this life; while I realize how painful, how debilitati...more
Alicia
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Diane

In The Girl on Legare Street, the sequel to The House On Tradd Street, Melanie Middleton, a successful real estate broker returns, as does Jack Treholm, the handsome writer who is obsessed with unsolved mysteries. To Melanie's surprise, her mother Ginnette, who left Melanie and her husband when Melanie was just seven years old has arrived on the scene as well. Ginnette has returned to Charleston, South Carolina, to confront her past and make amends with the daughter she left behind, but Melanie...more
Kathleen
Realizing I had skipped this second book in the “Tradd Street” series, I needed to read it quickly to fill in some of the gaps. The mystery of how Melanie’s mother returns after 33 years and healed their past was skillfully revealed. Her father, her close friends, an old and new love interest, an elderly historian are all here as well, moving between their life’s responsibilities and playing their part to solve a layered mystery. This mystery, as White’s other novels, involves an historic Charle...more
Lauren
I enjoyed this one a great deal, but not as much as the first one, House on Tradd Street.
However, I found Melanie a lot more likable in this one. And a little less self-centered. I enjoyed reading about her softening as her relationship with Ginette, her long-lost mother, progressed. I was more inclined to empathize with her anger towards Ginette in this book simply because Ginette was a character who played a present role in the book, rather than an absent one. This does not mean that Melanie's...more
Jo Banks
Having lived in Charleston for several years during the time my husband was a patient at the Navy Hospital (Viet Nam) plus a few years, I thoroughly enjoy reading Karen White's books and can relate to the areas she is writing about from the Navy yard to all of the islands and North Charleston. I remember Folly Beach when it looked just as described before and after the hotel was built. Charleston has such a distinct history with many quirks and "Old South" leanings that I recall quite vividly so...more
Melody
I enjoyed reading The House on Tradd Street by Karen White so much so that I read the next installment, The Girl on Legare Street right after I finished that book.

Well, where shall I begin? For starters, let's say I loved this book more than The House on Tradd Street. Don't get me wrong, I loved that book, but this book is better in my opinion. And also, I loved seeing Realtor Melanie Middleton and True historical crime writer Jack Trenholm are back together again working on another project - t...more
Anita
A good ghost story is always a must for October - and this book didn't disappoint. Melanie and Jack are back and their relationship is just as quirky as ever. Will they (Melanie especially)ever wake up and realize that they are perfect for each other!? Melanie's mother makes a re-entry into her life after a 30 year absense. I like the way they were able to resolve their relationship issues and work together.
There is an evil prescence haunting Melanie's mother's home on Legare Street in historic...more
Jeanne
Both this book and The House on Tradd Street are great reads - just the books I've been waiting for, about historic houses, hidden treasures, ghosts, and historical mysteries. The one thing that keeps these books from being utterly delightful is the main character who is quite insufferable. I get it that she had a rough childhood, but come on, she's almost 40 years old and she still acts like a spoiled child around everyone in her life. It's a wonder that the hunky love interest is still even in...more
Elizabeth
I have yet to enjoy a Karen White book as much as I enjoyed her first ones (e.g., Memory of Water and The HOuse on Tradd Street). This sequel to The House on Tradd Street has, on the plus side, Karen White's lovely depictions of old Charleston, and the author is good at evoking feelings and images. I was also glad to "meet" the protagonist's psychic mother who was conspicuously absent in the first book, and we are helped to understand why she had to abandon Melanie at such a young age.

I found Me...more
Tiffany
The Girl on Legare Street is a contemporary, ghost-story set in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a sequel to the House on Tradd Street, and in my opinion, leagues better. This book continues with the lifes of Jack and Melanie and their friends that were introduced in the first story. Of course, there is another ghost story to solve, only this one is not as obvious as the first story. This story was enthralling and intriguing as you raced to solve the mystery along with the characters. I also en...more
Namedoris Powell
This is the second of a series by Karen White. The first was about Tradd Street in Charleston, South Carolina. This book introduces our heroine's mother who had abandoned her daughter, Melanie, when she was about six years old. Melanie is extremely bitter about her mother abandoning her. It is really helpful to read these books in a series. I had started the third book in the series about Montagu Street and felt completely lost. After reading the first two books in the series, I now feel ready t...more
Lisa
The 2nd in a series but it can be read as a stand alone. Since I had just finished the first book, I felt like there was too much brought in from the first book to get the reader up to speed. I didn't think it was that necessary for a reader new to the series to know everything that happened in book one.

This one is much heavier on the ghosts and the mystery and takes a step back from the romance novel aspect which I appreciated. White lays out the clues in a way that makes the reader feel like t...more
Penny
Well, when I find myself skipping my normal routine in order to read a few chapters of a book, I know I have to rate it a 5. Karen White has done it again. She has managed to weave in a little history, a little ghost story, a little mystery and even a little romance, again. Same characters as The House on Tradd Street but a couple new characters, as well. I think this book might even be better than The House on Tradd Street because I was really puzzled on how to solve this mystery. It was not un...more
Sydnie Axman
This book is stupid. I like the first book, it was okay, but really. She's suppose to be a grown woman and she behaves like a spoiled little girl who doesn't get her way. (Because she has no backbone). She's constantly maneuvered into situations she doesn't want to be in because no one cares what she thinks and they all know better than her. It's so annoying. If she didn't want a birthday party, that should have been it. But she gets one regardless because everyone else wants her to have one. I'...more
Ashley
This book was so frustrating because I really don't relate with the main character at all. If I like someone I'm not going to go around acting like I don't, that's just dumb. And she was very clueless to Jack liking her when he obviously did, although at the end he had a rotten way of showing it...

So, the storyline with all the genealogy really had me confused at times. I thought Melanie's mom's excuse for leaving her when she was little was REALLY lame, I mean, really lame. I don't think Marc L...more
Kerry
I really enjoyed this second book in the Tradd St. series. Melanie Middleton has another ghost story on her hands but this time she is reunited with her mother, that she's been estranged from for almost 33 years. They are both psychic and there are family secrets and past hurts that need to be resolved. I rated it only 4 stars, as opposed to 5 because I feel that, at her age of 39, Melanie came across as a bit too old to be whining about her mother and why she left her when she was only a young...more
Elizabeth
This is the second book in the Tradd street. Melanie needs to leave her home with all the floors in her historic house are being refinished. She ends up staying with her mother, from whom she has been estranged since she was 7. There are bitter feelings on Melanie's part, even though she acknowledges her mother wasn't totally at fault.

Again, Melanie together with Jack, and the rest of her family and friends unravel a mystery that is buried in the Prioleau family's past. The mystery is good. I di...more
Cheryl A
Melanie Middleton, successful realtor and reluctant medium, is back in the second Tradd Street series. Melanie, having just inherited a historical home and began to re-establish a relationship with her father, is now faced with yet another surprise...the return of her mother, Ginnette Prioleau, who left more than 30 years ago. Ginnette wants Melanies help in purchasing the family home that she sold when she left and her assistance in restoring the home. Ginnette's return has also awakened the sp...more
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