Quarter 2, Post 10: The End

I am finally loving this book! The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry, is turning out to be so exciting and surprising. Angela has been found and Cal has proposed to her. This is great for Rafferty and his team because they think she is safe now, but in reality, she is in even more danger. This is because Cal’s followers are all after her, claiming that she is a witch and her baby is the devil. As if that isn’t bad enough, Towner is experiences strange dreams that feel more like reality to her. She has left Rafferty’s house with nothing but his dog and the boat and gone over to Eva’s. When she gets there she runs in to even more trouble with the mob of angry people. They even follow her to her house!

One of the aspects of this book that I have grown to enjoy so much is the plotline that has been created from the flashbacks. When certain characters remember a story from their past, a whole new mystery is presented. After piecing all of these past memories together, the story of Lyndley and Towner’s past has become a lot clearer…

 

When Lyndley and Towner were 16, Emma and Cal were getting into a lot of fights and Emma was getting badly beaten. The couple moved to California, and Lyndley stayed with May and Eva, switching off nights. She had a wild personality and was very independent, so when her mother wrote her saying that she wanted her to come to California, she wasn’t happy. She had just fallen in love with her longtime friend, Jack, and he had just proposed. The timing could not have been worse. However, Lyndley went to her mom because she thought that Cal would soon kill her out of anger. Years passed, and when she came back to Yellow Dog Island, she had changed. She was more distant and less like herself. Then, one day while Jack and Towner were sailing in to the island, they spotted Lyndley at the top of the cliff. They stared as she leaned over the edge and peacefully fell to her death.

 

I have enjoyed this book so much, especially since it has ended so differently than I ever expected. Everything I that I thought was important, I know see was just a mask over the real problems in the characters lives. I loved the ending to the plot, both in the present and in their memories, and I would definitely recommend it.