Publish Date: February 1, 2012
Format: Audio
Discs: 12
ISBN: 978
Can dreams be
passed down through families? As a child
Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a dark forest, crying for
her mother. Now six years later her
six-year0old niece, Summer, is having the same dream, and Jude is frightened
for her.
A successful
auctioneer, Jude is struggling to come to terms with the death of her
husband. When she’s asked to value a
collection of scientific instruments and manuscripts belonging to Anthony
Wickham, a lonely 18th century astronomer, she leaps at the chance
to escape London for the untamed beauty of Norfolk, where she grew up.
As Jude untangles
Wickham’s tragic story, she discovers threatening links to the present. What have Summer’s nightmares to do with
Starbrough folly, the eerie crumbling tower in the woods from which Wickham and
is adopted daughter Esther once viewed the night sky? With help of Euan, a local naturalist, Jude
searches for answers in the wild, haunting splendor of the Norfolk
forests. Dare she leave behind sadness
in her own life and learn to love again?
My Thoughts
Was this a story about trying to understand the reason for Summer's bad dreams or Jude finding love again or solving the mystery of the Wickham family and what happened to Esther or tracking down her grandmother's long lost childhood friend? I'm not really sure because there were so many sub-plots going on that each got lost. It was very slow paced and I just found the overall plot to be boring and uninteresting. The novel had so much potential - why couldn't it just be about Jude unraveling the mystery of Esther and be done with it. The dream aspect was just plain unrealistic and held no value to the story. I also found the love story to be unnecessary and boring. I felt zero engagement with the characters and couldn't wait for the story to end.
I listened to this on audio and I have come to the conclusion that I strongly dislike British narrators! I have listened to a number of them and the attempt at doing different voices for each character (especially a man or child) makes my skin crawl.
It had been a few weeks since I listened to this book and I can't real how it even ended. Hate when that happens.
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It had been a few weeks since I listened to this book and I can't real how it even ended. Hate when that happens.
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