Light at Lavelle

De: Paullina Simons

Narrado por: Jill Winternitz

TORN BETWEEN WHAT THEY CANNOT HAVE AND WHAT THEY CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT.

It is 1929. The world is about to change.

Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harboring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer, endures unspeakable hardships in her homeland as she fights to save her family from the Soviet Union's iron grip. Barely escaping the Terror-Famine, she washes up alone on America's distant shores.

Fate throws Finn and Isabelle together just as the stock market crash causes a devastating collapse of his world. Amid the Great Depression and the trials of their new lives, an undeniable connection grows between them that they both must hide.

As their intertwined destinies hang in the balance, they discover that even those who have lost everything still have something left to lose.

Light at Lavelle is the breathtaking epic love story from the worldwide bestselling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman. Paullina Simons weaves an unforgettable tapestry of love, hope, and fate, showing us that sometimes the greatest battles are fought within our own hearts.

©2023 Paullina Simons (P)2024 Tantor

A remarkable, epic love story.

No one makes you wait like Paulina Simon's. And no one does epic like her, either. This narrator was more than up to the task. A magnificent performance that kept me up late, eager to hit play in the morning, and pausing for long moments throughout the day, just to listen for a few more minutes. The book is going to hurt you a bit, but in my opinion, the pain is worth it.

Fantastic narrator

I’m a big fan of the Bronze Horseman series so I was excited for this one to be released. I really enjoyed learning more about Ukraine. I love how Paullina mixes history and story. The narrator on this one is so good. She changes up accents and voices like it’s nothing. Well done.

So good!

Such a talented writer who weaves this love story together until it concludes the only way it can. Highly recommend!

Love story is epic

Loved it so much ive been left with book hangover. Want part two.. please. And movie made too

Character development, history.

I love the challenges of the characters as they change according to the circumstances of the times (according to the author ). The story follows the flow of real history. I learned quite a lot, specifically about Ukraine/Russian history and the stock market crash of 1929 leading to the Depression and WWII. It’s a terrific read!! Plus the reader is versital according to who is speaking and their accents.

Tra-la-la-la-la straight off a cliff

I think this was trying to be a very condensed version of the “Bronze Horseman” books (my absolute favorite), with almost the same ‘hiding in plain site’ romance build up, with recycled themes and prose and under tones, but didn’t land nearly as well. It was an epic build up (I’ll give it that) to a then mechanically contrived and ungraceful nose dive off a cliff. I laughed- actually laughed- because of course, two characters developed and written with sense would be so senseless and uncharacteristically dense. So i half listened and rolled my eyes then increased speed to 2.0 just to have suspicions confirmed. And for such a long book the big crescendo, and then ultimate sew up seemed rushed and felt more like just a shrug of the shoulders and a “good enough”. I don’t buy it, even for nonfiction characters, especially because the author did such a thorough job introducing and then making sure we knew these characters so well. So I’m sorry but there is no way Finn just fell back in and went on “tra- la- la- la -la”. Im not even sad because i just feel like real human emotions and behaviors, as well as the character molds themselves, were all just chucked out the window to get a certain outcome. I lost my bond with the characters in the final few chapters because of it. Will archive this title and forget it.