Getting down to the last one hundred pages of Kate Morton's "the Secret Keeper"...As much as I love her writing, this story of 481 pages has been an uphill climb...climbing over her exquisite descriptive language is wearing..bouncing me from present to past, between two characters, then three, then four... better keep up! I put her writing in the class of old English mystery novelists... I used to read them when I was young...when I had stamina! I'd always say, you have to read at least halfway through before you get to the plot-point-subject. This one would be worth reading twice, as there are so many details I feel I overlooked and slept through!
Finished. Kate Morton is indeed a worthwhile novelist to read, but this book is not one you want to set down for any length of time unless you have a good memory, which I don’t. Many Time changes, Character changes, all in the telling of this story that starts out in 1941 London during the war, to present 2011, and ends when Laurel glances back to her own childhood...and ends on a shocking revelation.
I couldn’t put the last hundred pages down. I never suspect or guess anything, but then Kate doesn’t give anything away to the reader so you can, she keeps her story only to herself until the final act, I mean chapter.
I couldn’t put the last hundred pages down. I never suspect or guess anything, but then Kate doesn’t give anything away to the reader so you can, she keeps her story only to herself until the final act, I mean chapter.
Kate Morton is a detailed writer, descriptive to the enth degree, both with her surroundings, actions, and characters, almost, for this reader, to distraction. I’ve read all of her books, as of this date, and there is a compelling desire I have to both rest now, and then read something more along the lines of a simple plot line.
This story left me not particularly sad, but with a melancholy that I knew would bring tears to my eyes. Kate takes you so deep into her characters, you may ask yourself if these people could possibly be your relatives...the good ones, of course.
I will definitely be reading her next novel, The Lake House, which comes out this October, 2015, but will wait, and rest, another year before I take it on.
Here is a bit about this new novel from Kate’s web page, and a link where you can read a little of the beginning. Enjoy!
Here is a bit about this new novel from Kate’s web page, and a link where you can read a little of the beginning. Enjoy!
http://katemorton.com/books/the-lake-house/
The Lake House
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