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The Lightkeeper
Susan Wiggs

Mira, 2002 - 384 pages

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Definitely one for my keeper shelf!

This was a wonderful story with endearing characters and great setting details. This was my first time reading this author's work, but certainly not my last!


I love this story!

This is one of the only books I have on my keeper shelf. It's so refreshing! A beautiful love story. Great location. Great characters. I love Jesse & Mary. Even the secondary characters & the town are interesting.









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Written well, but something was missing...

I was surprised that coincidentally a few days after I finished the book, our local newspaper featured an article about no other than Cape Disappointment in Washington state! And indeed, it showed a picture of a beautiful lighthouse against a rocky shore.

The story was very well written. Wiggs poured a lot of thought and energy into developing each of her characters. We learn early on that our hero, Jesse, has been grieving the last 12 years over the untimely death of her wife and unborn child, blaming himself over the circumstances by which she perished. By the end of the book, we have an intimate look of Jesse's youth, family dynamics, and all that created him into the person he was at the start of the story.

Enter Mary, whom Jesse rescues as she was washed ashore after a terrible shipwreck. The mystery woman, who was also pregnant, was fated to enter his life, and lift him from the solitary mire that was his self-imposed incarceration for his past sins. He resisted her attempts to love him, and draw him out of his misery. All the while, she had her own tragety and losses which has made her truly alone in the world, yet she was blessed with a strong and optimistic personality. Joy was found in flowers, the sky, the waters, the hills, and her tenacity allowed her to share that healing spirit with Jesse whether he was opened to it or not.

The Lightkeeper was a good story in theory, and I enjoyed the prose, and the character developement. However, for reasons I can't pinpoint, it didn't touch me in a personal level as I think the writer intended. I couldn't relate to Mary's infallible optimism, nor Jesse's gruff aloofness. I couldn't feel Jesse or Mary's pain, though I know in my mind, how awful they were. I found myself midbook, wishing Jesse would just forgive himself (for Pete's sake, its been 12 years, and the weather was also to blame!!) and allow himself to love Mary. But alas, finally, the book ended happily as all love stories ought, but because I never truly got into the characters, it was easy to put the story out of my mind completely (except when the newspaper featured Cape Disappointment).


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A good read

Another Susan Wiggs winner. I have only recently became a Susan Wiggs fan and enjoyed this older novel as well the newer ones.


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Once, the sea took everything he loved . . .

Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from everything but his bitter memories.

Now the sea has given him a second chance.

A beautiful stranger washes ashore, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Penniless and pregnant, Mary Dare is a woman who carries painful memories of her own.

With laughter, hope and joy, Mary and her child bring light into the dark corners of Jesse's world. Soon friendship turns to passion and passion becomes love. And together they must fight the secrets from the past that threaten to destroy all they hold dear.


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