Overall, it wasn’t what I was expecting but I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be reading more from Lisa Jewell! While this might not be my favorite out of the four books I have read by the author, I do think this is her best attempt at a mystery that has you guessing until the end.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Although the suspense is right at that sweet spot throughout, I felt there were a few unanswered questions by the end and was a tad underwhelmed by the abrupt ending. A young 13-year-old girl named Grace is found unconscious and half-dressed, lying on the ground in the park. I think our generation has lost something important in the fact that we are so incredibly isolated as families now; not borrowing sugar from our neighbors and having another families kids over for the night so that their parents could have a night off. The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret.

Didn't agree with much in the way of parenting here, not sure I cared much for the parents who seem oblivious to all the undercurrents happening within this gang of kids. See how this one summer's experiences detrimentally affects the next decade of her like as she tries to form a relationship with a young man who wants to marry her.

There's murder, mental instability, love (which you might could argue is mental instability in itself), and most of all, the dynamic of neighborly fellowship. She found a fairy, the fairy was sparkly and the fairy’s name was Lilliana they became good friends.Appropriately the most odious character here, Gordon the father-in-law of Adele, is the most elderly.

While I have no idea what to make of the Serpent, I do have a theory about the Girl drawn from actual Jewish legend. The ending itself is not completely satisfying although it did not ruin the story for me or anything. The twists kept me off guard and as an avid reader of mysteries, I thought I had the attacker pegged. Her arrival sets a series of events in motion and what was once broken has a chance to be mended, which is a wonderful thought.

Rather than ignore this mysterious situation, she gets in and faces the unknown and uncovers something scarey and shameful, yet fulfilling to Rakhee in some way. The housing groups’ central focus is a park with gardens at the center upon which children and adults alike freely wander the field and playground. I didn't particularly warm to either Clare or Adele, they were each too one-dimensional and cliched. According to some sources, every soul that has or will be born was initially grown from the Tree of Souls. My luck were the words that went through Mabel's mind just then: it was only happenstance that they'd ended up at the cabins, that he'd come to the point of needing a good deal of rest before he could get behind the wheel of that dusty, dented old Buick and face a round of endless driving once again.