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A review by rett
The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
3.0
SPOILER: Okay, so on one hand I loved this book so much that I literally tore through it in a matter of days. The writing is lush and gorgeous. It had a fantastic set-up, a very gothic story set in the amazing French countryside. I was literally ready to call this a perfect book (which is rare for me) and then . . . pffst. The last 30-40 pages just fizzled out. All of the careful set-up, the questions, the lies, the secrets and then . . . it all turned out to be just a misunderstanding. All of it. (Well, except one very small thing, the cause of some of the "supernatural" elements, but literally everything else, the missing girls, Rachel and even Dom's behavior, all perfect misunderstandings and explained away.) I wanted a much bigger payoff, something more worthy of the amazing set-up.