LJ's review
The Lake of Dead Languages: A Novel
by Carol Goodman (Goodreads author!)
LJ's review
The Lake of Dead Languages: A Novel by Carol Goodman (Goodreads author!)
LJ's review
rating:
bookshelves:
contemporary_post_1945,
new_york_state,
suspense
THE LAKE OF DEAD LANGUAGES (Suspense-Adirondacks-Cont) – NR/DNF
Goodman, Carol – 1st book
Ballantine Books, 2006- Paperback
Jane Hudson teaches Latin and lives in a cottage at the Heart Lake School for Girls. Jane had also been a student and graduated from Heart Lake. While there, two of her roommates died by committing suicide; or did they? Pages from Jane's lost journal from 20 years ago are now turning up. Now Jane has three students who seem to be repeating the past.
*** When you identify the villain almost from the beginning, there's almost no way you can continue. Add to that, characters about whom I really didn't care and a story that seemed built on coincidence, and it was doomed. The best part of the book was describing how ice forms on a lake, but that certainly wasn't enough to keep me going.
Goodman, Carol – 1st book
Ballantine Books, 2006- Paperback
Jane Hudson teaches Latin and lives in a cottage at the Heart Lake School for Girls. Jane had also been a student and graduated from Heart Lake. While there, two of her roommates died by committing suicide; or did they? Pages from Jane's lost journal from 20 years ago are now turning up. Now Jane has three students who seem to be repeating the past.
*** When you identify the villain almost from the beginning, there's almost no way you can continue. Add to that, characters about whom I really didn't care and a story that seemed built on coincidence, and it was doomed. The best part of the book was describing how ice forms on a lake, but that certainly wasn't enough to keep me going.
