Good morning!
Ever have those weeks, not days but weeks, where if something can interrupt your flow, it will? That's been my case lately. Balace will be restored. Maybe with the Lunar Eclipse tonight.
This week, I'm reviewing The Lighthouse Keeper's Argument by Sloane Hart.
Nora Callahan came back
to Cedar Falls for one reason: sell her late grandmother's lighthouse cottage
before the ink dries on her promotion offer and get back to her real life in
Boston. She did not come back to argue with the infuriating, broad-shouldered
harbor master who's filed three injunctions against the sale and apparently has
opinions about everything she does. Declan Marsh has spent five years quietly
protecting the Cedar Falls coastline — and the lighthouse that anchors it. He's
not about to let some city lawyer in impractical shoes hand it over to a resort
developer who'll gut the soul out of his town. Even if that lawyer has a laugh
that keeps him awake at night. Forced to co-manage the cottage's legal fate
through a town heritage review, Nora and Declan wage war in public and wage
something far more dangerous in private. But Nora's flight back to Boston is
already booked. And Declan learned the hard way that the people you love most
are always one tide away from leaving. Something's got to give. The question is
whether it will be the injunction — or their hearts.
After three attempts to get into the story and barely making my way through Chapter 7, I had to put the book down. Nothing is happening. I knew as a reader I was going to be in trouble when Nora meets Declan, bringing the two characters together, then the very next chapter Nora is parked in front of the cottage again, thinking about the argument. What argument? We are not privy to the confrontation between Nora and Declan. As a reader, I want to experience that fire between the main characters. We never really see this in as far as I've read. While there is one point where they are in the cottage together assessing potential historical value as well as what is wrong, the content is as foggy and cold as the sea air coming off the ocean.
Maybe I'm missing something but I can't rate this book. I do encourage Sloane Hart to learn the craft before investing her time, and ours, on a story we can't feel.
I can't rate this book. We'll see what September brings. I'm in the mood to curl up with a good Autumnal read.
All my best!
~ Angela
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