A review by annashiv
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor

3.0

It's...fine...I guess. I really didn't like the last few chapter though. It was just overly...romanticized. I wish it had committed to the tragic aspects instead of looking at everything through rose tinted glasses. I dunno. I feel like only middle aged women (just look at all the names of the reviewers) with several children should read this novel. It feels very much like it caters to them and their fantasies, which is fine, but hard for me to relate to even being a woman. I just couldn't relate I guess as I have no children of my own. It just felt oddly...soulless? It feels like a weird way to describe the book, but it's all that comes to mind bearing any accuracy. I guess I'm just not a fan of overly sentimental writing. Reading this was how I figured it out. Maybe I'll give books like this another go if I'm ever married with 2/5 children and a lot more hormones.