THE LIGHTKEEPER'S DAUGHTERS is a book that I felt from the beginning was just my kind of book. I love books with dual storylines. Also, I was quite taken with the cover and blurb.
THE LIGHTKEEPER'S DAUGHTERS is about two twin sisters that were born at the beginning of the 20th-century to a lightkeeper and his wife on an isolated island. There, they grew up with their two older brothers. Several events, when they were older, would permanently change their lives and, in the end, make them move away from the island. Now one of the sisters, Elizabeth, is back and living in a nursing home. Here, she lives, almost blind with just the memories of the past, until her father's old journals are found on a shipwrecked boat. With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager who is performing community service at the nursing home after vandalism, she will rediscover her story through Morgan reading for her. Perhaps will this clear up some of the mysterious events in the past that Elizabeth never got answers for.
I found THE LIGHTKEEPER'S DAUGHTERS to be a fascinating tale. Jean E. Pendziwol writes in a way that I could really picture the isolated island and the little family living there. I was curious to learn what really happened to them to make the sisters leave. As the story progressed, pieces of the puzzle slowly start to give hints to what happened in the past. The ending is both bittersweet and great. It's the kind of ending I love. I also loved reading about Elizabeth and Morgan, two souls that meet in a way that almost felt fated. I found the story fascinating to read. I particularly loved the last part of the story when the authors twist the story in a way that I never expected. It's truly amazing to read a book that manages to completely surprise me.
THE LIGHTKEEPER'S DAUGHTERS is a book I recommend if you like to read stories that touch your heart. I'm impressed with this story and Pendziwol is definitely an author I want to read more books by. I have a tendency to go for books with beautiful covers and intriguing blurbs. I'm glad to say that I picked a winner!
With the haunting atmosphere and emotional power of The Language of Flowers, Orphan Train, and The Light Between Oceans, critically acclaimed children’s author Jean E. Pendziwol’s adult debut is an affecting story of family, identity, and art that involves a decades-old mystery. Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth’s eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her beloved books or gaze at the paintings that move her spirit, she fills the void with music and memories of her family, especially her beloved twin sister, Emily. When her late father’s journals are discovered after an accident, the past suddenly becomes all too present. With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at her senior home, Elizabeth goes through the diaries, a journey through time that brings the two women closer together. Entry by entry, these unlikely friends are drawn deep into a world far removed from their own, to Porphyry Island on Lake Superior, where Elizabeth’s father manned the lighthouse and raised his young family seventy years before. As the words on these musty pages come alive, Elizabeth and Morgan begin to realize that their fates are connected to the isolated island in ways they never dreamed. While the discovery of Morgan’s connection sheds light onto her own family mysteries, the faded pages of the journals will shake the foundation of everything Elizabeth thinks she knows and bring the secrets of the past into the light.
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