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tashaseegmiller's review against another edition
5.0
In a few short months, Kerry Lonsdale has shown the world that she has the skill and creativity to craft exceptional stories. While there are many authors who suffer from a "sophomore slump", Lonsdale is not one of them. Crafting a story that merges mistakes and reluctance of hope into unique characters with complicated pasts, Lonsdale invites readers to immerse themselves in the magic of a beachside setting where characters struggle to find their own place in a world where the realm of possibility is blurred.
It's easy to say I'm a life-long Lonsdale fan.
It's easy to say I'm a life-long Lonsdale fan.
dharma130's review against another edition
3.0
It was good and entertaining but so annoying when narrator Dara Rosenberg mispronounced San Luis Obispo over and over, as "Obisko"!!!
luciearan's review against another edition
5.0
Zvláštní, pozvolně plynoucí kniha, která vás pohltí a unáší na vlnách příběhu, na jehož konci vás vyplivne plné pocitů a myšlenek. Ano, mě se tento způsob vyprávění moc líbí, i když vím, že je poněkud kontroverzní a budete jej, buď jako já, milovat, nebo nenávidět. Ale zkusit se má vše a tak dejte této knize šanci a uvidíte sami.
ellyrarg's review against another edition
3.0
An easy read, with an interesting premise. I loved the way all the psychic talents just were, very matter of fact with an appropriate wariness about outsiders.
I do feel like it could have been better written, as if we as readers could have been given more credit to piece together what was going on (honestly, there was a lot of unnecessary spelling out).
I also thought Molly’s priorities were weird, like her nana is sick and she’s going to go have dinner at Owens? It was like the romance subplot had been shoe-horned in. I thought it was unnecessary, and definitely could have used a lighter touch. A sick grandmother, a life or death plot, Molly’s history... all more interesting and much higher priority than the romance story, I thought.
Still, I enjoyed the book. Easy to read and the rest of it held up. Worth the read.
I do feel like it could have been better written, as if we as readers could have been given more credit to piece together what was going on (honestly, there was a lot of unnecessary spelling out).
I also thought Molly’s priorities were weird, like her nana is sick and she’s going to go have dinner at Owens? It was like the romance subplot had been shoe-horned in. I thought it was unnecessary, and definitely could have used a lighter touch. A sick grandmother, a life or death plot, Molly’s history... all more interesting and much higher priority than the romance story, I thought.
Still, I enjoyed the book. Easy to read and the rest of it held up. Worth the read.
cathiedalziel's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 stars.
The mom (main character) is totally selfish and acts more like the child, demanding her daughter (and everyone else in her life) be able to keep her safe. Anything that happens to anyone in her life is always brought back to her - zero empathy level but 100% identification levels and everything gets turned back to her experiences, her needs, etc.
The females in the family lineage have special mind powers. There is a love interest going on, but it was pretty sparkless for me.
Reminded me of a Hallmark special with a selfish, no personality, lead character. Not my cuppa and I doubt if I would read the next one in the series. I really liked the Grandmother
The mom (main character) is totally selfish and acts more like the child, demanding her daughter (and everyone else in her life) be able to keep her safe. Anything that happens to anyone in her life is always brought back to her - zero empathy level but 100% identification levels and everything gets turned back to her experiences, her needs, etc.
The females in the family lineage have special mind powers. There is a love interest going on, but it was pretty sparkless for me.
Reminded me of a Hallmark special with a selfish, no personality, lead character. Not my cuppa and I doubt if I would read the next one in the series. I really liked the Grandmother
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She dies near the ending, so I doubt she will be in the 2nd book of the seriesjudithdcollins's review against another edition
4.0
Kerry Lonsdale continues with another heartfelt tale, following her debut, Everything We Keep, with her latest upcoming, ALL THE BREAKING WAVES —an emotional family domestic suspense saga of dark secrets, mystery, and magical realism.
Lonsdale paints a vivid portrait of a contemporary family filled with secrets, strife and ultimately—love.
ALL THE BREAKING WAVES is a mystery suspense with strong twists of romantic, historical, and paranormal elements. A talented sea glass artist, Molly Brennan whose daughter, gifted with visions, predicts Molly’s death. Molly has five days to outwit fate or make the ultimate sacrifice any parent can make. The daughter’s premonitions come with dangerous side-effects.
Molly Brennan grew up in the Pacific Grove, a coastal town on the Monterey Peninsula in California. She loved the ocean and combing for treasures. She had once believed the surf-tumbled glass had come from mermaids.
When the mythical creatures wept for sailors lost at sea, their tears hardened and washed ashore by the latest storm front. Mermaid tears were treasures, meant to be guarded close to one’s heart. They brought wishes of true love and kept you safe from those who meant harm.
However, time had taught her two valuable lessons: Fairy tales and fables paled in comparison with real nightmares, and psychic abilities were a power, the human body should not possess.
Years ago, Molly had left her home following a tragic accident. In the process, she also left the man she loved, Owen. Telling him she did not love him, but she did and always will. She was only trying to protect others around her. Her mom was murdered, and her dad died in a fatal car accident. She had no one left but her Nana, and she was getting old. And her daughter, she has to protect.
Four generations of women with "the gift." A gift which could be a torture and misunderstood by many. Ordinary to extraordinary.
Since this time, twelve years later Molly has made a home for herself and her eight-year-old daughter Cassie. Molly teaches art history at a local community college and makes jewelry from the glass she collects with a side business, selling to boutiques. They live a quiet life in San Luis Obispo in a small bungalow.
However, now her worst nightmare is facing her head on.
Cassie is experiencing horrific visions and debilitating nightmares. She is making predictions at school to keep her friends out of harm’s way. She is being bullied and frightening the parents, students, teachers, and her friends. Everyone thinks she is a freak.
Mollie’s daughter Cassie has dreams, with premonitions. They were getting worse and more gruesome. The accidents she foresaw were followed by nightmares that recurred until the premonition came to pass.
Her latest, she told her friend Grace she would be hit by a car on her bike, so she keeps telling her to be safe and wear a helmet. Maybe she could keep her from dying. To keep her from having brain damage. Both mother and daughter are desperate to have the visions go away.
They were vicious little monsters. They only echoed Molly’s own grammar school experiences. The taunting and jeers, the cautious glances. It was easier to play the role of the social outcast than to explain the odd things she saw or seemed to make other people do.
Cassie’s abilities had only recently manifested and Molly was worried she was already a social outcast. If only she could learn not to talk about them at school.
After all, Molly knew how bad her father hated her abilities, so it was hard to force her daughter to keep quiet when those close to her were in danger. Things get out of control at school. Molly is called in by the principal and teachers. Instead of seeing a child psychologist, Molly knows there is only one person who could possibly help Cassie. Her grandmother, Nana Mary. In hopes of understanding and harnessing her gifts.
She had to do something to help her daughter. The psychological damage, the nightmares, and the lack of sleep. The visions had become horrific. Tormenting. Now that Grace’s accident had come true, she was having the worst visions yet. Cassie sees her mother drowning. She couldn’t breathe and sees her dying.
Molly is frantic and decides they need to pack up for a short visit with Nana Mary. She will be able to help control Cassie’s visions. However, how was she going to avoid the water when her Nana’s house was so close to the ocean?
From guilt and regret, the unexpected. Her Nana is in poor health, and Owen has purchased the family home next door to her Nana. The one place she swore she would never come back to. The haunting memories. Returning to Pacific Grove always roused Molly’s own fears and doubts about her own abilities.
From the past to present the author takes us back to four generations of women. All with psychic gifts. However, somewhere along the way, they were handled differently. From loss, love, and tragedy and second chances, Lonsdale takes delivers a compelling story of the strong bonds of family, and fears which haunt and destroy.
Molly is forced into the unraveling of the events of the past: Her shame, her internal journey; guilt, her mother Shelia, domestic violence, her controlling father, her Nana, and her love for Owen and her daughter Cassie. As she faces her own fears she finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Pacific. Discovering unexpected treasures.
Combined with suspense, mystery, romance, and magical realism the multi-generational saga has many parallels from the sea glass as trash turned into treasures similar to the lives of the characters. Their psychic gifts, on one hand, are viewed as evil, versus helpful or extraordinary. The twists and comparisons with Owen’s guilt, and Mollys.
At the heart of the novel: Molly represents every parent faced with difficult, and sometimes life-threatening choices about a child’s well-being. Sacrifices for our children. An ongoing theme of facing decisions to either embrace or dismiss life choices. From acceptance, death, forgiveness, family, love, motherhood and sacrifice.
For fans of Jayne Ann Krentz, Christina Dodd, Karen Robards, and Lisa Unger (romance, suspense, mystery, psychic, paranormal); Karen White, Sarah Addison Allen, Lisa Van Allen and Alice Hoffman (historical, magical realism).
A multilayered mystery where interlinked stories, and generations, as well as unearthed secrets of a damaged family lead to courage and healing.
Look forward to [b:Everything We Left Behind|31277190|Everything We Left Behind|Kerry Lonsdale|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|51933279], coming July 2017!
A special thank you to the author, Lake Union, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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Lonsdale paints a vivid portrait of a contemporary family filled with secrets, strife and ultimately—love.
ALL THE BREAKING WAVES is a mystery suspense with strong twists of romantic, historical, and paranormal elements. A talented sea glass artist, Molly Brennan whose daughter, gifted with visions, predicts Molly’s death. Molly has five days to outwit fate or make the ultimate sacrifice any parent can make. The daughter’s premonitions come with dangerous side-effects.
Molly Brennan grew up in the Pacific Grove, a coastal town on the Monterey Peninsula in California. She loved the ocean and combing for treasures. She had once believed the surf-tumbled glass had come from mermaids.
When the mythical creatures wept for sailors lost at sea, their tears hardened and washed ashore by the latest storm front. Mermaid tears were treasures, meant to be guarded close to one’s heart. They brought wishes of true love and kept you safe from those who meant harm.
However, time had taught her two valuable lessons: Fairy tales and fables paled in comparison with real nightmares, and psychic abilities were a power, the human body should not possess.
Years ago, Molly had left her home following a tragic accident. In the process, she also left the man she loved, Owen. Telling him she did not love him, but she did and always will. She was only trying to protect others around her. Her mom was murdered, and her dad died in a fatal car accident. She had no one left but her Nana, and she was getting old. And her daughter, she has to protect.
Four generations of women with "the gift." A gift which could be a torture and misunderstood by many. Ordinary to extraordinary.
Since this time, twelve years later Molly has made a home for herself and her eight-year-old daughter Cassie. Molly teaches art history at a local community college and makes jewelry from the glass she collects with a side business, selling to boutiques. They live a quiet life in San Luis Obispo in a small bungalow.
However, now her worst nightmare is facing her head on.
Cassie is experiencing horrific visions and debilitating nightmares. She is making predictions at school to keep her friends out of harm’s way. She is being bullied and frightening the parents, students, teachers, and her friends. Everyone thinks she is a freak.
Mollie’s daughter Cassie has dreams, with premonitions. They were getting worse and more gruesome. The accidents she foresaw were followed by nightmares that recurred until the premonition came to pass.
Her latest, she told her friend Grace she would be hit by a car on her bike, so she keeps telling her to be safe and wear a helmet. Maybe she could keep her from dying. To keep her from having brain damage. Both mother and daughter are desperate to have the visions go away.
They were vicious little monsters. They only echoed Molly’s own grammar school experiences. The taunting and jeers, the cautious glances. It was easier to play the role of the social outcast than to explain the odd things she saw or seemed to make other people do.
Cassie’s abilities had only recently manifested and Molly was worried she was already a social outcast. If only she could learn not to talk about them at school.
After all, Molly knew how bad her father hated her abilities, so it was hard to force her daughter to keep quiet when those close to her were in danger. Things get out of control at school. Molly is called in by the principal and teachers. Instead of seeing a child psychologist, Molly knows there is only one person who could possibly help Cassie. Her grandmother, Nana Mary. In hopes of understanding and harnessing her gifts.
She had to do something to help her daughter. The psychological damage, the nightmares, and the lack of sleep. The visions had become horrific. Tormenting. Now that Grace’s accident had come true, she was having the worst visions yet. Cassie sees her mother drowning. She couldn’t breathe and sees her dying.
Molly is frantic and decides they need to pack up for a short visit with Nana Mary. She will be able to help control Cassie’s visions. However, how was she going to avoid the water when her Nana’s house was so close to the ocean?
From guilt and regret, the unexpected. Her Nana is in poor health, and Owen has purchased the family home next door to her Nana. The one place she swore she would never come back to. The haunting memories. Returning to Pacific Grove always roused Molly’s own fears and doubts about her own abilities.
From the past to present the author takes us back to four generations of women. All with psychic gifts. However, somewhere along the way, they were handled differently. From loss, love, and tragedy and second chances, Lonsdale takes delivers a compelling story of the strong bonds of family, and fears which haunt and destroy.
Molly is forced into the unraveling of the events of the past: Her shame, her internal journey; guilt, her mother Shelia, domestic violence, her controlling father, her Nana, and her love for Owen and her daughter Cassie. As she faces her own fears she finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Pacific. Discovering unexpected treasures.
Combined with suspense, mystery, romance, and magical realism the multi-generational saga has many parallels from the sea glass as trash turned into treasures similar to the lives of the characters. Their psychic gifts, on one hand, are viewed as evil, versus helpful or extraordinary. The twists and comparisons with Owen’s guilt, and Mollys.
At the heart of the novel: Molly represents every parent faced with difficult, and sometimes life-threatening choices about a child’s well-being. Sacrifices for our children. An ongoing theme of facing decisions to either embrace or dismiss life choices. From acceptance, death, forgiveness, family, love, motherhood and sacrifice.
For fans of Jayne Ann Krentz, Christina Dodd, Karen Robards, and Lisa Unger (romance, suspense, mystery, psychic, paranormal); Karen White, Sarah Addison Allen, Lisa Van Allen and Alice Hoffman (historical, magical realism).
A multilayered mystery where interlinked stories, and generations, as well as unearthed secrets of a damaged family lead to courage and healing.
Look forward to [b:Everything We Left Behind|31277190|Everything We Left Behind|Kerry Lonsdale|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|51933279], coming July 2017!
A special thank you to the author, Lake Union, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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ashleystraniero's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book! It was different than something I would normally pick up because of the sci-if-ish aspect of the novel. I was pleasantly surprised once reading it though. I think the storyline and the characters were well developed and I liked the storyline and plot twists. The only thing I have to say I was not a fan of was the depiction of watching a loved one die from brain cancer. The almost pleasant ending that Molly’s grandmother met is nothing at all what the reality of brain cancer is like. As someone who personally watched someone they love die from brain cancer, I just felt as if that part of the book was not a very relevant portrayal.
knightedbooks's review against another edition
4.0
I received a copy of this through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. I had trouble getting in to the book at first. But a few chapters in I was hooked. I stayed up late reading and just had to finish the book the next day. I was worried Molly would not choose Owen. I was so relieved that the book had a happy ending.
minseigle's review against another edition
5.0
I liked this book even more than the author's other books! I was quite anxious to read on and find out what happened! Some laughter, some tears...I recommend!