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Original Title:	The Lace Reader
ISBN:	097915930X (ISBN13: 9780979159305)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Salem #1
Setting:	Salem, Massachusetts(United States)

The Lace Reader (Salem #1)

Brunonia Barry

Paperback | Pages: 353 pages

Rating: 3.47 | 27003 Users | 4315 Reviews

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Title	:	The Lace Reader (Salem #1)
Author	:	Brunonia Barry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	US / CAN Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 353 pages
Published	:	July 2007 by Flap Jacket Press (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Magical Realism. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy

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Look into the lace... When the eyes begin to fill with tears and the patience is long exhausted, there will appear a glimpse of something not quite seen... In this moment, an image will begin to form... in the space between what is real and what is only imagined.

Can you read your future in a piece of lace? All of the Whitney women can. But the last time Towner read, it killed her sister and nearly robbed Towner of her own sanity. Vowing never to read lace again, her resolve is tested when faced with the mysterious, unsolvable disappearance of her beloved Great Aunt Eva, Salem s original Lace Reader. Told from opposing and often unreliable perspectives, the story engages the reader s own beliefs. Should we listen to Towner, who may be losing her mind for the second time? Or should we believe John Rafferty, a no nonsense New York detective, who ran away from the city to a simpler place only to find himself inextricably involved in a psychic tug of war with all three generations of Whitney women? Does either have the whole story? Or does the truth lie somewhere in the swirling pattern of the lace?

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I'm biased in regards to this book, because this October, I'll be traveling to the North Shore and Salem for my honeymoon. So I was predisposed to enjoy the admittedly captivating descriptions of a city poised between the past and the (heavily marketed, witch-industry-based) future. But for everything wonderful about this book, there were other things that were muddy. Although the book warns the reader from literally the very beginning that we'll be seeing things through the eyes of someone who

If you liked THE LIFE OF PI, you might like this book. I didn't, and I wasn't real fond of this one by the time I got to the end of it. If that's a spoiler, so be it. This book actually made me mad.Okay, so this book is about a family of women with "the sight," who can read a person's future through lace. Except there's very little actual lace reading that goes on in the book. There's a fair bit of lace making, but no reading. The heroine has been estranged from her relatives, living on the

Reading this book is like falling asleep in a moderately interesting class. A moment flutters by that briefly captures your imagination, but mainly things are just droning along. Droning, that is, until the last moment when the teacher starts ranting and throwing things. Wow! I'm awake, I'm awake--what's happening? This book has one of those crazy twist endings that just doesn't make sense, and you suspect that you missed something since you were, after all, practically asleep. But you didn't.

When I first saw this book cover, I had a mental Will Smith moment: Awwww, hell no! I thought it was the same as those novels centered around knitting or quilting but that lace was the new vehicle. Boy, was I wrong! Its about so much more than lace reading (a kind of fortune telling based on the reading of lace), but Im not here to plot summarize. Ill say what I always say when I think a story is full of excellent twists. Be careful which reviews you read! I loved, loved, loved this story. Its

This spellbinding story is primarily told by Towner Whitney,Brunonia Barry's self-confessed unreliable narrator: My name is Towner Whitney. No, thats not exactly true. My real first name is Sophya. Never believe me. I lie all the time. However, the first-person point of view shifts to a third-person adding to the mysterious narrative.Set in Salem, Massachusetts, the novel interlaces historic references with modern allusions that waver between somber and glib, creating an evocative, unpredictable

This book didnt quite live up to my expectations for it but overall, I thought it was okay. That makes me a little sad because there were several elements to this book that seemed like they would be wildly interesting when they were all mixed together in the same book and I was hoping to really love it. A quick rundown of the things that happened include the mysterious death of Eva Whitney, suicide, the disappearance of a young woman, mental illness, sexual abuse, rape, witchcraft,

I liked this book at first because of the visual setting of Salem and Marblehead, the unusual dysfunctional family, and the mystery of the aunt's death. As the story progresses it just gets tangled in its own web or lace as it were, a story in search of a flashy ending which is provided but somehow unsatisfying.