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The award-winning author of The Memory of Water delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness.
When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched.
Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piper's dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather's death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn't exist—or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace—and a newspaper article from 1939 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace's charms tell the story of three friends during the 1930s— each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.
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Chris Bierbaum
reviewed The Lost Hours on June 27, 2013
The Lost Hours
This book was so melodramatic, reading it was exhausting. The hot tears! The hand wringing! The low whispers! The knowing smiles! The haunted looks! The author writes in such detail about certain things (like the main character's horse injury and trees at the horse farm) and then glosses over major turns in the story. Piper's grandmother (the catalyst for this whole book) dies and it is just noted in passing.
And then Piper changes her name and pretends to be studying a family's history to learn answers about her grandmother. The family invites her to stay at their estate while she is doing her research. What??? I had lots of problems with this. First, there is no lead up to her thinking about pulling this ruse. That would have been nice to know. Second, why would a family invite her to LIVE on their horse farm while researching their history? That is weird. Third, the matriarch has so many secrets. Why would she agree to have anyone live with her and delve into her family history? Fourth, how does this family not realize Piper is not who she says she is? The author makes a big deal of how astute and sharp the matriarch is and the clues are so obvious. Fifth, why would Piper want to live on a horse farm when she is terrified of horses? Sixth, this matriarch knows all the answers to Piper's questions and yet makes her go through weeks of research instead of just telling her.
Some parts of the story line were seriously underdeveloped while others were overdeveloped. I wondered why Josie was needed in the book. I never got the sense that Annabelle, Lillian and Josie had such a deep friendship. Josie's character development was sorely lacking. The characters weren't even described well. Then the author includes a story line about a suicidal wife who killed herself when she found out about the matriarch's secrets. Really?? So dramatic and not believable. It was unnecessary to the rest of the book and could have been left out. I am picturing the book without Josie and the suicidal wife and it is better. The ending was anti-climatic and I was just glad to be done.
I guess I was looking for another Sarah Addison Allen and thought this author might be similar. I am going to try her other books and I hope I enjoy them more.
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