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The Girl On Legare Street (Tradd Street)
By:
Karen White
List Price: $15.00
Your Price: $10.20
(as of: 09/08/10)
Manufacturer: NAL Trade
ISBN: 0451227999
Publication Date: 2009-11-03
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Product Description:
Acclaimed author Karen White returns with the sequel to the national bestseller The House on Tradd Street.
Melanie has grown accustomed to renovating old houses, but she never imagined she'd have to renovate her own life to include her estranged mother. Ginnette Prioleau Middleton left Charleston thirty-five years ago. She's returned wanting to protect the daughter she's never really known after receiving an ominous premonition.
Melanie never wanted to see her mother again, but with some prodding from her partner, Jack Trenholm, she agrees-and begins to rebuild their relationship. Together Melanie and Ginnette buy back their old home. With their combined psychic abilities they expect to unearth some ghosts. But what they find is a vengeful dark spirit whose strength has been growing for decades. It will take unearthing long buried secrets to beat this demon and save what's left of Melanie's family...
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Melanie is trying to concentrate on her job as a realtor in Charleston in this sequel to The House on Tradd Street. In her spare time, she is renovating her historical house along with Dr. Sophie Wallen, a professor of historical restoration and her best friend.
Melanie’s mother, Ginnette Prioleau Middleton, a world-renowned opera star, left Melanie when she was seven years old, 33 years ago. Melanie was raised by her alcoholic father and had a very hard time dealing with her mother’s abandonment.
When her mother returns to her life through an ex-boyfriend and sometimes partner in exorcising ghosts, Jack Trenholm, her routine life is unsettled. Melanie and her mother have a special gift of seeing dead spirits but kept a very low profile in that regard. When Ginnette decides to purchase their old family home, unrested spirits come to the surface.
With their lives in danger, Melanie and her mother must find out why evil spirits are threatening them. When an old sunken ship is raised, things become more complicated when a dead body, apparently murdered, is found in a trunk. It is believed to be a distant relative of theirs.
Rebecca Edgerton, a reporter with the Post and Courier who has been writing articles on famous Charlestonians of the last 50 years, is interested in writing a store about the Prioleau family. Her interest in the family turns up some interesting information. Her interest in Jack also has Melanie disturbed, but she has to determine why. Melanie doesn’t trust her, but can’t quite figure out why.
Digging up the family history doesn’t always turn out the way they expected. Finding out relatives aren’t always what they seemed make their quest a dangerous one. Melanie, having to deal with her mother’s return, turns up more questions than answers.
This spell-binding, super natural ghost story keeps you wondering about family relationships. Karen White weaves a tale of intrigue, suspense, and deceit.
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| By: Pat Marchant, ReaderToReader.com
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Customer Reviews
Pretty Good, but slower than molasses: (2010-08-02)
This is the third Karen White book I've read recently. "The House on Tradd Street" was the first and I enjoyed it. Then last week I read "The Lost Hours" and enjoyed it less because there were numerous times when the mystery could have been revealed, making it a much more interesting story. As it was, it was too full of unnecessary side stories that--well, just read my review and I won't have to repeat myself. "The Girl on Legare Street" suffers from the same situation as "The Lost Hours". This is a good story, but has been drawn out to the point I felt like skipping pages. Jack is the male main charactor, and Melanie, for some reason, keeps finding excuses to not get involved with him, and all for reason that don't really make sense. She is attracted, but pushes him away. Why? A look, a word, a pause, etc. and she knows he is not for her. Then there is the situation with her mother- about which she reminds the reader almost every other page. Again, as in "The Lost Hours", there is information that someone (her mother, in this case) thinks she should know, but keeps saying she will tell her later. Why always later? Well, - to make the book longer, of course. Chopping about 50 pages out and tightening up the story would have made this much better.
Good stuff: (2010-07-19)
I am quickly finding myself becoming a Karen White fan. Her plots are fun and good page turners. I will say that sometimes the story gets a little bogged down in details (particularly in this book), but the premise is great. The details of the city of Charleston are fantastic as well.
More I think about it, the more I like it: (2010-05-28)
This is one of those series, the more I think about it, the more I like it. If you enjoy a good mystery with a mix of spirits and a history lesson then you will enjoy both stories. If you are looking for a romance, you won't find it (yet) but I have faith this will all tie up into a neat series. I am hoping this sets the stage for what's to come. I would feel slighted if I didn't know there are two more books coming out because there is ALOT of unfinished business with several of the characters. I really loved Yvonne.....good sassy intelligent 89 year old lady who can do library research like none other. I admit that Mel made me frustrated and I am not sure why Jack has stuck around so there is alot of tension and frustration. I did not care for Melanie but by the end of The Girl on Legare Street she was really turning into a human being and at times, she even made me laugh. There are many interesting twists and characters to keep up with but I am now hooked and can't wait for the next two installments. (If Melanie could have ditched the woe-is-me pity party and been a little nicer to Jack (who couldn't help but love the guy?), I would have given this 5 stars).
Another Haunted House in Old Charleston: (2010-04-22)
Driven, super-organized Charleston, South Carolina realtor, Melanie Middleton, has managed to chase the ghosts from her historic house on Tradd Street, although the renovations, of course, still go on. As does the non-relationship with writer, Jack Trenholm. Melanie's life becomes haunted once more when her long-absent mother shows up and wants Melanie to handle the purchase of their family house on Legare Street. A menacing entity haunts that house, along with a friendlier spirit, the guardian of Melanie's childhood, and then there's the not so wonderful memories Melanie has of when her mother abandoned her and her father. This book is a good sequel to THE HOUSE ON TRADD STREET, which introduced us to Melanie and her problems with old Charleston houses and her unsuccessful attempt to escape from her past and her ability to see ghosts. Much more of Melanie's background is revealed here, with the appearance of her mother. And the mysteries of yet another haunted old house, this time concerning Melanie's ancestors, is good, and fairly creepy. Sadly, Melanie's love life remains a mess, although persistent Jack managed to remain in the picture despite Melanie's issues about relationships and abandonment.
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