On Mystic Lake Book Report

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The first thing that grabbed my attention about the book was that Annie, the main character, was making it seem like her life with her family was almost picture perfect. Yet once her and her husband Blake got home from dropping their daughter off at the airport, he told her that he wanted a divorce. This is just the beginning of change happening to Alice in the book On Mystic Lake written by Kristin Hannah.
The change is just beginning and many choices are being made by Annie within her love life and just her regular life. Once Blake had told Annie that he had fallen in love with another woman, she had decided that she would go back to a place where she could find love within other family members, her home town. While she’s there, she reconnects with her first love who had just lost his wife along with his young daughter who is slowly disappearing. Annie starts to help them both by trying to heal them along with herself. Yet, when she believes that everything is finally going to be okay, she gets stuck with a choice that anyone in her position shouldn’t have to make.
Once Annie had gone back to her home town of Mystic, she wanted everything to almost change. Her first big and one of her hardest
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The whole book is basically how Annie is helping people. But while she is doing that, her own problems also need to be taken care of. In the end, Annie shows how she doesn’t need anyone to make decisions for her because she is able to make them herself. This book happened to make really think about life and the way I make sure that no makes choices for me. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves romance type books, or even someone who loves a little bit of mystery. There was always something going on, and something new happening that always kept your attention wondering or guessing what was going to happen

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