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Daniela Tully

Autor(a) de Hotel on Shadow Lake: A Novel

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This story follows Maya as she tries to uncover the truth about what happened to her grandmother who disappeared without a trace.

I picked this book up because of the title and the picture on the cover. I was expecting a family mystery and maybe something a little creepy. The family mystery the story does have.

The story begins with Martha, in Germany as the war breaks out. I don't like reading books set during the war although I have read The Book Thief and The Nightingale and have enjoyed both.

It took me a little while to get into the story, nothing grabbed my interest much not even when the story jumps to the future with Maya. I wanted to enjoy the story more than I did but I really felt bogged down with it.

The story follows a couple of timelines, a family history about an hotel. Everything does come together and things are explained but by this point I had totally lost interest.

I would give the author another go but books set during the war are not for me.
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tina1969 | outras 6 resenhas | Sep 23, 2021 |
There's romance, thriller, and history in this pre WWII novel set in Germany. She goes back & forth in time and generations to tell the story, sometimes making me think she's missed some details, but is still a very compelling read.
 
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EllenH | outras 6 resenhas | Mar 27, 2019 |
2 histoires d'amours en 1938 et 2017, par les grands parents et par eux. pas facile de se retrouver car bcp de personnages
 
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guilmom | outras 6 resenhas | Mar 26, 2019 |
This novel is dual time line. One time line is about Martha in Munich at the beginning of WWII. The second time line is Maya's story. Maya is Martha's granddaughter and her story takes place in Munich and New York state during present times. Both story lines were very well written but I liked Martha's story better. I felt more compassion for Martha and the hard life she was facing balancing her views of Hitler with what was going on in Munich during this time period.

When Maya is 16 and doing a study year in America, her beloved grandmother disappeared. Maya's life never seemed right after she returned to Munich due to the loss of her grandmother who had helped raise her after her mother left the family. Twenty seven years after she disappeared, Martha's body was found in New York state. No one was sure why she was there or how she died. Maya leaves Munich and goes to the area that her grandmother's body was found in and tries to solve the mystery by herself despite the danger she gets herself into. As Maya tries to unravel the mystery of her grandmother's disappearance, she has to decide if her life and a chance at true love are worth risking for the truth.

I found this book a bit confusing in the beginning but once I separated the voices of the main characters, it all began to make more sense. Overall, I thought that this was a well written historical fiction and I highly recommend it.

Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.
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susan0316 | outras 6 resenhas | Aug 10, 2018 |

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Obras
1
Membros
50
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#316,248
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½ 3.4
Resenhas
7
ISBNs
10
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