Fleeing an abusive marriage and tormented by her past, Alexandra Turner finds solace in a small coastal town on Puget Sound and a job with a local marine biologist studying orcas.After befriending a group of locals, Alex learns that she has moved to a place that has a reputation of being the “most haunted town in Washington.” Such superstitions would be easy to dismiss…if Alex wasn’t already on … already on edge.
Haunted by shreds of memories of her days with her husband, Alex can’t keep from looking over her shoulder. As unexplained sounds and scents accumulate and unnerving forces seem to take hold, Alex is beginning to believe that she’s not escaping her ghosts, after all. In fact, she might finally be inviting them in.
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A nice book that pulled me in and held on. While I have never read anything by this author before I certainly look forward to more now. It has great characters and is written to keep you wanting more. It was one that was hard to put down and hard to see end.
I loved it.
Thank you #NetGalley, #Lake Union, #The Music of the Deep
Well, this wasn’t exactly what i was expecting but it was still very good. i read it in 2 days! TRIGGER WARNING: DOMESTIC ABUSE
This book is about Alex. She marries the perfect, handsome, dreamy Daniel. Then the nightmare begins. This guy is the piece of shit suck to the bottom of your shoe. He’s abusive in every way. Alex finally leaves him after 11 years of living in constant terror. She runs away to Copper Cove, Washington to work for a marine biologist, Maggie. The story then weaves Maggie’s story, Alex’s story and Emmie’s story together. Emmie is another local who may or may not be a witch. There’s not many ghost in it like i had expected. Ghost of the past, sure but not BOO! ghost.
The writing in this book is great. Like i said, it wasn’t what i expected but i devoured it in 2 days. This is the first thing I’ve read by Elizabeth Hall but i would read more by her.
I received this book as a gift from a friend. Thank you very much Tara!
A woman arrives in a small coastal town on Puget Sound after fleeing her abusive husband. She finds work with a marine biologist studying orcas. She joins a group of quilters, meets a woman who has a unique connection with animals and has some strange experiences of her own in what she discovers is the most haunted town in Washington. Fascinating background on orcas.
I am going to not read for a day or two because my head and heart are still living in this book. It will take me a bit to let it go.
Orcas in pods, family units fighting to stay alive against incredible odds….man. Women at all stages of their lives are represented here, all trying their best to live their lives for them, not for husbands or even their children or conventional wisdom.
Alex has lived in fear and pain for so long in an abusive marriage, knowing a restraining order won’t work. Her struggle is shown slowly, over time, just as it was for her all those years. She moves to a small town in Washington, a town of cedar, rain, ghosts and orcas. Working for Maggie, marine biologist, living alone with her whale sounds and research. Emmie is introduced as the town witch, talks to herself. And much later on, you know who she is talking to….grab a tissue. She is an empath, highly sensitive to the pain of animals…even people like Alex. You must meet the Spinsters…a group of weavers, knitters, spinning their wool and listening to the quiet calm it brings them. Using the Hadley House, they meet and chat and Alex meets David, Grace and Caroline. Caroline is single, waitress, artist, lover of men and has a bawdy sense of humor. David and Caroline inject lots of humor and it works, it lightens the mood.
This book goes to each woman’s past and present and injects so much in a very few pages…this author rocks. You care about each person as you do each orca in the family pod
So much wonderful information on the orcas that refect back on our family units. And the abuse that Alex tries so hard to hide, it could be overwhelmingly sad but it isn’t…it’s about survival, caring, kindness, listening. The smells, sounds, the vibrations things and people give off all come into play in this novel.
All these women go against the grain of their times, taking on their passions for art, orcas, animals……living without men if need be without apologizing. This is not an anti-man book, Emmie had Finch, and Caroline is still looking whereas Alex just needs to be safe.
This town has a whale bell, and this group goes out to watch the orcas, to ejoy the whooshing sounds, to embrace each new baby orca, to cry as the pod diminishes in size.
And they fight to keep them safe….orcas, women, dreams, the lost….
Please read this novel of fiction but I don’t like to refer to it that way as so much wonderful information that makes you sit still, reflect, smell and listen to the “music of the deep.”