The Lake Of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
I did, kind of, enjoy reading this book even though it was pretty predictable. All the way through it, well, well over half of it, i guessed who would have been the culprit and the 'everybody living happily ever after' ending was...well...disapointing. The main Character must have been an idiot to have been completely oblivious to who was to blame for the strange occurrences and deaths that where happening. Actually, i read the second half of the book feeling quite annoyed with the main character, Jane, for being to thick to see what was happening around her. There are no unpredictable turns and nothing that leaves you thinking 'i didn't see that coming'.
It's very girlie, i couldn't imagine it holding any man's, and for that matter most women's, interest for more then the first few lines. It's set in a private girls school and Jane is a Latin teacher to a small class of troubled teenage girls and also was a student their herself 20yrs ago, at which time their were 3 deaths and many rumours about the lake in the schools grounds being haunted.
Yeah, it would be fair to say this isn't a life changing book and it's not one that i will be suggesting to friends. This was my mum's book which i dug out from the bottom of the wardrobe, when i asked my mum, before i reading it, what she thought of it she said she 'hadn't finished it' and 'didn't get into it'. So, i would say, if you have nothing else left in the house to read, maybe give it a go but don't expect too much.
3 out of 10 (only because i did finish it!)
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