Title: A SOUND
AMONG THE TREES
Author: Susan
Meissner
Publisher:
Waterbrook Press
October 2011
ISBN: 978-0-3074-5885-8
Genre: women’s
fiction
A house
shrouded in time.
A line of women with a heritage of loss.
A line of women with a heritage of loss.
As a young bride,
Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her
Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide
When Marielle
Bishop marries into the family and is transplanted from the arid west to her
husband’s home, it isn’t long before she is led to believe that the house she
just settled into brings misfortune to the women who live there.
With Adelaide’s
richly peppered superstitions and deep family roots at stake, Marielle must
sort out the truth about Susannah Page and Holly Oak— and make peace with the
sacrifices she has made for love.
A SOUND AMONG THE
TREES is kind of a weird story. I found it disturbing, and kind of spooky. The
house is haunted. The main characters are dead. The house has a point of view.
And it went against my biblical beliefs when they called a medium in to
communicate with the dead… I don’t remember the biblical account exactly, but
seemed to me that King Saul was sentenced to death for calling up the spirit of
Samuel…
Okay, this story
is haunting, but Ms. Meissner is a lovely writer. Full of decription, the
reader can actually “see” what she is describing, from wedding gowns to flowers
to rooms. Beautifully written. But the book felt wrong to me. People who like
spooky, haunting, and ghostly tales might enjoy this book better than I did.
$14.99. 336 pages.
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