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But while I was reading about it, it annoyed me. After a few more chapters, this didn’t really matter anymore, so I just sort of put it aside. Perhaps this was meant to be indicative of how truly sheltered she had been, but it just caused a hiccup for me. But I had trouble imagining that she would really not have almost any plans at all.

I could imagine that she would not accurately predict or prepare for how things would work out early on, and thus she would be surprised. My second issue was that I simply had a lot of trouble imagining that Maddie would leave her marriage in quite such an unplanned way.

(The second issue involves a very minor spoiler for a very early part of the book, so skip the next paragraph if you wish…) And it probably won’t bother many other people, but if you’re like me, you’re now forewarned! This is, I think, perhaps a bit of a personal idiosyncrasy – I tend in general not to like multiple points of view. First, I found the multiple points of view to be a smidge jarring. With all that said, I had two issues that diminished my enjoyment of the book ever so slightly. And I felt that the protagonist, Maddie, developed depth throughout the book. The plot was engaging and there is a major twist that comes in an unexpected way, and at an unexpected time, that really adds to the story. Although I was only a child then, Lippman’s writing echoes what I remember hearing many adults (including some of my own relatives) say at the time. I hadn’t read anything by Laura Lippman in decades (literally), so I was happy to receive a review copy of Lady in the Lake.įirst, the good stuff! I loved the well-drawn 1960s Baltimore setting, with very different attitudes towards women working, mixed-race relationships, divorce, etc.