The Lake House by James Patterson ~ Started: 06.12.09 ~ Finished: 08.12.09
Synopsis ~
Frannie O'Neill's life turned upside down when six incredible children blew in on the wind. Rescuing them from the school that created them took all her courage and cunning, but the children captured her heart. Now the young flock wants to go back to the couple it regards as parents, and Frannie and FBI maverick Kit Brennan are suing for custody. But when the case involves the most extraordinary creatures ever to land on this earth, someone will ensure there is no happy ending. Only Max, the oldest and most remarkable of the winged children, knows that another, terrifying biological experiment is taking place. Somewhere in America, a brilliant but evil surgeon, Dr Ethan Kane, is secretly researching - performing a cruel travesty of an operation as he scoops the life from people hoping for a better future. But to complete his experiment he needs the ultimate prize - Max herself. And as the children dream of returning to the happy safety of the lake house, where for a few precious months they flew free, Kane moves ever closer...
‘The Lake House’ is the sequel to ‘When the Wind Blows’ by James Patterson.
‘The Lake House’ begins six months after the events in ‘When the Wind Blows’, the children’s lives have changed and they have been reunited with their families but the flock miss Kit and Frannie, the couple they consider to be their parents.
Again, the powers that be are after the flock for their own gain, it seems they have escaped from one terrible place to return to another one, with only Kit and Frannie to help them, what will become of the flock?
‘The Lake House’ was more exciting that ‘When the Wind Blows’, the flock could not trust anyone apart from Kit and Frannie, as the story progressed you find out who is after the flock and why.
The only negative I found in the book was Max’s refusal to tell Kit and Frannie the whole story, Max has trust issues for obvious reasons but I just felt that she should trust Kit and Frannie, apart from that, the book was a great read.