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1) Hardcover Book The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Harcourt. After reading reviews on this book, I was really looking forward to reading it. What a disappointment! The writing was all over the place - lots of incomplete thoughts and just fragments of what was supposedly going on. Main character was intriguing - marched to the beat of a different drummer - but she had everything against her: selfish parents, jealous sister, rape, baby as result of the rape and then the baby taken from her and a family that cares so little for her that they leave her locked up in an institution for 60 years. After all that, she should have been a raving lunatic. Not even a satisfactory conclusion tying it all together. The ending leaves the whole story up in the air. Don´t waste your time.¤

2) Hardcover Book The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Harcourt. I found this book fascinating. It was well written. The only negative was the timeline; switching back and forth between past and present was at times difficult to keep up with. However, the story was very interesting. I did not want to put this book down! It generated one of the best discussions my book club has had.¤

3) Hardcover Book The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Harcourt. I absolutely loved the book! Her style of writing is full of details and loose ends that she ties beautifully throughout the book. All your questions from the past do get answered. Some about the future will be left up to you, but that´s ok. It is not the important part of the book!
If there were more stars I would give this book a 10! The story is very powerful and the characters will stay with you for a long time. Happy reading.¤

4) Hardcover Book The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Harcourt. I accidently cam across the book and decided to give it a shot! Wow, am I glad I picked it up!!! Very well written, well crafted book. Could not put it down. It deals with a family deception that was carried on for years and years. I cannot recommend it highly enough! I also read After You´d Gone by the same author. This was an excellent story, also.¤

5) Hardcover Book The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Harcourt. The stars are for the first 99 percent of the book. The missing stars are for the lack of ending. This is the second book in a row that I have read without a real ending. Is this a new trend? If so I don´t like it. I want to know what happened when Esme confronted Kitty without witnesses. (I find it hard to believe that she would just do the deed without saying something first.) I want to know what happened to Esme and why she would risk being reinstitutionalized rather than spend more time with Iris. I want to know what Iris did about Luke and Alex. I want an ending, not all these loose ends.

I did enjoy the book up until it ended so abruptly.¤

In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital—where she has been locked away for more than sixty-one years.

Iris’s grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child. But Esme’s papers prove she is Kitty’s sister, and Iris can see the shadow of her dead father in Esme’s face.

Esme has been labeled harmless—sane enough to coexist with the rest of the world. But she´s still basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, and one who is sure to bring life-altering secrets with her when she leaves the ward. If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit?

A gothic, intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox will haunt you long past its final page.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

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