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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. VictoriaPL | Jun 29, 2009 |   A very interesting story. Parts were confusing and a knowledge of Salem and the witch trials certainly helped. I thought that Towner was schiophrenic so I was off on that. The "idea of "reading lace" is interesting. I would read this author again. (  )swinemil | Jun 27, 2009 | This book was very appealing and interesting to me. I don't think it is great literature, but the characters were different, and the plot twists were not expected. I liked the new age atmosphere and the strong female characters. I am still wondering who May's husband/lover was. (  )jensenyetta | Jun 24, 2009 | Great chick-lit. Good story, told in a bit of a round about way. ( )VenusofUrbino | Jun 20, 2009 | Lace readers can look through a piece of lace and see a person's future. The ability runs in families. The premise is intriguing, but the book failed to engage me. Perhaps it would have picked up if I'd stuck with it, but life's too short to read books I'm not enjoying. (  )readinggeek451 | Jun 13, 2009 | 0.068 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0061624764, Hardcover)
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappearance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death of her twin sister to light. The Lace Reader is a mesmerizing tale that spirals into a world of secrets, confused identities, lies, and half-truths in which the reader quickly finds it's nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction, but as Towner Whitney points out early on in the novel, "There are no accidents." (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:51 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Loved this one. Beautifully atmospheric yet fully grounded in the Salem culture. I was glued to this book.
And the ending… yeah, it got me. I had no idea it was coming. And it changed the whole story. For hours afterward I was thinking about the repercussions. A reread is a must. (