A Stillness of Chimes

• Print Length: 354 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0307730786
• Publisher: Multnomah Books (February 18, 2014)
• Sold by: Random House LLC
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00F1W0E6M

 

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Laura Gantt, a red haired history teacher, comes home to Prospect, Georgia to settle her recently deceased mother’s home and belongings. What she doesn’t expect to encounter is newly formed rumors of people seeing her father walking around town. This startles Laura since her father was presumed dead twelve years earlier by drowning in the towns nearby lake where he went fishing that day. Though his body was never found. Searching the mountain side for more clues to the truth behind whether her father is alive, Laura reface memories and feelings of abandonment from the day of his disappearance. All Laura’s ex beau Sean wants to protect her and keep her feet firmly planted on the ground and not to get her hopes up. Things get interesting when items in Laura’s mother’s house go missing and a prowler is spotted outside the house as well. Between the two of them can Laura and Sean find out what happened that day that her father disappeared? What other secrets become uncovered? Do Laura and Sean rekindle their romance?

Elliott Gantt, Laura’s father, was an ex-Vietnam Veteran that Laura and a Doctor suspect had PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and that being some of his issues before he disappeared. I am amazed at the accuracy of everything depicted by the author when it comes to the behaviors she has her character display. Being a military wife I can relate to some PTSD symptoms (though I will admit not even close to what was described in this book). “…his shaggy hair half-veiling his fierce blue eyes and hiding most of the tiny scars on his forehead.” All the characters were believable and stayed within their character perimeters, not demonstrating any emotion or decision that would conflict there personality. I fell in love with most of the people in this story and easily believed they could be real.

“When she inhaled, her lungs seemed to fill with deep sadness that seeped into every cell of her body.” Sympathizing with Laura, I could picture what she must have been feeling at every turn. It was hard not to with the amazingly described emotions, feelings and depth of the characters. It was like I was there standing next to her. Living what she was living, feeling what she was feeling.

I was so wrapped up in this book that the real world became a blur. I could be reading and someone come up talking to me and I never even heard them. When I had to take a break, I worked extra hard to get what I had to get done, done so that I could get back to the book and find out what happens. The plot was riveting, the scenery so well described I felt like I was there watching everything unfold from a distance.

I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone. This is not my typical choice of genre and I loved it. I found no complaints on any level, be it the characters, plot, setting, or relationships throughout this story.The book was amazing the best I have read in a long, long time.

I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review."