The Woman in the Lake
Written by Nicola Cornick
Narrated by Rebecca Courtney, Malk Williams, Imogen Church and Charlie Sanderson
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
London, 1765
Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before.
Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of the lake, looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly rolls over to reveal her face, it’s clear this was not his intended victim…
250 Years Later…
When a gown she stole from a historic home as a child is mysteriously returned to Fenella Brightwell, it begins to possess her in exactly the same way that it did as a girl. Soon the fragile new life Fen has created for herself away from her abusive ex-husband is threatened at its foundations by the gown’s power over her until she can't tell what is real and what is imaginary.
As Fen uncovers more about the gown and Isabella’s story, she begins to see the parallels with her own life. When each piece of history is revealed, the gown—and its past—seems to possess her more and more, culminating in a dramatic revelation set to destroy her sanity.
Nicola Cornick
USA Today bestselling author Nicola Cornick has written over thirty historical romances for Harlequin and HQN Books. She has been nominated twice for a RWA RITA Award and twice for the UK RNA Award. She works as a historian and guide in a seventeenth century house. In 2006 she was awarded a Masters degree with distinction from Ruskin College, Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation on heroes.
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48 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I liked the story, and the narration. 1st time with this author, pretty sure I'll see what else I can find.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Audiobook -
This was performed by three narrators. I’m unsure who narrated each character. One of them definitely did a much better job than the others as well as one made if difficult for me to listen to it at times as her voice was so flat and monotone that I struggled with the driving need to just stop the torture. Usually, I just switched over to music and later returned to it. It pretty much flipped between narrators/characters with every chapter which made it much easier.
I had high hopes for this book. Labeled as a psychological thriller, I’m not sure what I was expecting but this tended to have a bit of a paranormal aspect to it. Although, I was okay with that. It just never really lived up to what that promised as well as the thriller claim.
The most disappointing part of the story was that I didn’t like or care about a single character. Not even the one that was supposed to be the good guy in the end. I also expected to feel more of the mystery and mystique and was hoping for a surprising twist but unfortunately I didn’t get any of that either. I stuck with this one thinking it was going to eventually give me that adrenaline rush at the end but nope. I felt like this was a waste of time. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I liked the past/current aspect. I liked that there was so few curse words! Thank you! It’s so cheap and useless when stories are flooded with that.
The narrators were my last favorite part. Fen’s narrator nearly drove me to distraction! The odd, very unnatural way she would articulate“Fen said” or “Jesse said” was so annoying! It stuck out more than the dialogue. And her over annunciation of the consonants in every word and particularly at the end of words also sounded so unnatural!
The others were better but Constance’s narrator could be monotonous as well.
If the narrator are unnatural it literally RUINS the effect of the book!