The Girl on Legare Street (Audible Audio Edition) Karen White Aimée Bruneau Inc Listen Live Audio Books
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A 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 33 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 reappears in her life and asks for her help in buying back the family home. But before she can slam the door in her mother's face, Ginnette tells her it was a premonition that brought her back - a premonition involving old family secrets and a malevolent presence. It has come for Melanie, and to fight it, they will have to stand together.
Karen White, author of 10 award-winning novels, is a graduate of Tulane University and the American School in London. She currently lives in Georgia with her husband and two children. When not writing, she spends her time rewading, singing, scrapbooking, carpooling children and avoiding cooking. Aimee Bruneau is an actor, director, professor and student of theater. She earned her MFA in acting from the American Conservatory Theater. Aimee has been telling tales in Seattle for more than a decade. She has also worked for theaters in Chicago, San Francisco, Savannah, and in Southern France.
The Girl on Legare Street (Audible Audio Edition) Karen White Aimée Bruneau Inc Listen Live Audio Books
The main character is supposed to be a woman in her 30s. She acts like an immature teenager. If the main character was to act like a grown up it would have been a 5 star book. It was incredibly hard to like her. I found myself liking her less and less- and less. In fact, about 1/4 of the way through this book I thought "Yeah! Found a fabulous book series" and ordered all other Tadd St books by Karen White. By the end of the book I'd had just enough of the main characters ego and immaturity.Besides how terrible she treats the man in her life (he should run!) who wants to hear over and over how thin this woman is and how every time she eats she can eat what she pleases? Every darn time the character (or author) was bragging about how thin she was. Once was enough. I skimmed reviews on the rest of the series and saw other comments in Goodreads that mirrored my disappointment. Donated the books without even cracking the spine. The story itself was fabulous, so 2 stars.Product details
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The Girl on Legare Street (Audible Audio Edition) Karen White Aimée Bruneau Inc Listen Live Audio Books Reviews
This book was a very fast read for me. I enjoyed the book, the story line and the way this auther writes. I feel like the story reads like a movie script almost. I could imagine, visualize seeing these things happen on a screen almost.
This book is book two of a trilogy. The first book, The House on Tradd Street, has Melanie inheriting an old historical home (and dog!), and begining renovations. The story continues in this book with her Mother now returning into her life and buying the old family home to remodel.
I enjoyed this story line, but....here is what I didn't like about the book. Melanie has two potential love interests in this book. Jack and Marc. Part way through the book, it comes out that Marc is writing a book, about a very hushed topic, as another writer is writing about the same thing (maybe Jack?), but that story line never continues. I thought there would be more to that. Meanwhile, Jack, who is an author, is having trouble with his publisher returning phone calls, and I thought these two story lines would meet and/or merge somehow, but never did.
And of course, at the very end of the book, (spoiler alert ahead!) Melanie and Jack return to her house on Tradd street to find Jack's parents and a long lost daughter Jack wasn't aware he had? To stop a book right there? Really?
I know there is a third book in the series, and I am sure I will read it soon, but those couple things bothered me in this book. Beyond that though, a great book. I love Karen White's writing, and will read more of her books, no question. Overall, a very good book.
This is the second book in a series, and I did not read the first. The story progressed smoothly, standing well on its own. Melanie, an almost-forty successful real estate agent, has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts, as does her estranged mother. When her mother reappears in her life, they must work together to solve a mystery of murder and bloodlines, before her mother succumbs to the dark powers of an angry ghost. The language of the book is serviceable and plain, occasionally clumsy. The plot is self-consistent, but predictable. I liked the fact that characters who couldn’t see, and didn’t believe in, ghosts were portrayed with balance, not as cardboard enemies. But Melanie was drawn less mature, less resilient, less capable than a grown career woman would be, in both her relationships with her mother and with her almost-boyfriend Jack, exhibiting behaviors of a teenager, and this made it difficult for me to really root for her.
Karen White is a truly gifted writer. Her turn of a sentence, the use of unexpected words, the antidotal comments bring these characters and their situations to life in the most entertaining way. I especially appreciate her sense of humor and imagination. I'm so thankful for good writing that makes you feel as if you are an unmentioned character in the story living right along with them. I have read all five books and loved the entire series and am sorry there isn't somewhere to go after this that is just as much fun to read. I really miss these characters and cannot seem to find another book that I enjoy as much, even other Karen White books! I agree that the character Melanie can grate on you, but the poor woman has been through a lot. She has grown up with boogiemen and women in her house where she should be able to feel safe, but she never feels safe. Her mother leaves her at a tender age when she is too young to make any sense of it, her father who could be a comfort is instead an alcoholic she must endure and take care of and worse, accuses her of making up her ability to see dead people and so she lives with fear and danger. There is no-one to turn to for comfort or protection since no one believes her. She is forced to hide her true self from her father and school children who taunt her. Her grandmother is murdered, she is taken from her home and raised in a foreign country when her father is sent to Japan. There is never anyone to confide in. Everyone she should have had to comfort her is unavailable either physically or emotionally. Trust was not a luxury she ever experienced. Her emotional growth was stunted at age 6 and she has not matured emotionally past it. I am able to forgive her for being so abrasive and her inability to understand how deeply she can hurt other's feelings because she feels she has never mattered enough to believe she can. If this were a real person and all these things really happened to her, it would be amazing that she functions at all. I do hope if there is a 6th book that she will make progress and be a truly loving wife and a loving example for her children. I believe she feels she is a failure at everything except her job and her spreadsheets so that is where she finds gratification and where she finds comfort and control. If she is ever healed of her past she will be able to live a much fuller and happier life. I hope the story will allow her to finally be truly happy and move forward so people aren't so put off by this character.
The main character is supposed to be a woman in her 30s. She acts like an immature teenager. If the main character was to act like a grown up it would have been a 5 star book. It was incredibly hard to like her. I found myself liking her less and less- and less. In fact, about 1/4 of the way through this book I thought "Yeah! Found a fabulous book series" and ordered all other Tadd St books by Karen White. By the end of the book I'd had just enough of the main characters ego and immaturity.Besides how terrible she treats the man in her life (he should run!) who wants to hear over and over how thin this woman is and how every time she eats she can eat what she pleases? Every darn time the character (or author) was bragging about how thin she was. Once was enough. I skimmed reviews on the rest of the series and saw other comments in Goodreads that mirrored my disappointment. Donated the books without even cracking the spine. The story itself was fabulous, so 2 stars.
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