{"id":526,"date":"2017-06-29T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2017-09-10T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T21:59:49","slug":"book-the-lighthouse-keeper-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/29\/book-the-lighthouse-keeper-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Lighthouse Keeper (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1488044072l\/32605697.jpg\" alt=\"The Lighthouse Keeper\" width=\"317\" height=\"475\" \/>The Lighthouse Keeper<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2017<br \/>\nAuthor: Cynthia Ellingsen<br \/>\nLength: 380 pages<\/p>\n<p>***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY***<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to call this book \u201ccute,\u201d but I\u2019m afraid Kip would toss me into Lake Michigan. That being said, part of me now wants to go out, get a nautical compass tattoo on my arm and buy a dilapidated lighthouse to restore. I don\u2019t usually read \u201cromance\u201d novels. Of course, I&#8217;m not sure I could even consider this book in that genre since it had so many other aspects to it, but I almost immediately fell in love with the characters and the setting. The story came to life in my head, even to the point where I started mentally casting the movie (probably Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Evans, and Reese Witherspoon for starters).<\/p>\n<p>While the main premise that started the plot seemed a little unbelievable (why would this insurance company have a lien on a house that isn\u2019t insured by them?), the story has a ton of heart.\u00a0Cynthia Ellingsen does an excellent job of fleshing out the \u201csmall town\u201d feel of the setting. The treasure hunting side of the story drove the plot forward at a comfortable pace. It was fast enough to keep me interested but slow enough to engage the main character with some growth situations and minor character interactions and developments.<\/p>\n<p>Even with all the praise I could heap on this book, I can\u2019t in good conscience give it the full five stars because of some of the \u201cromance clich\u00e9s\u201d it contains. The most egregious was the main character who kept denying her true feelings. I don\u2019t know why she ever thought she had a life back in Boston, but every time she thought she\u2019d be returning, I rolled my eyes already knowing what the outcome would be. Furthermore, I become quite irate when these characters don\u2019t communicate with each other, thus preventing petty drama from occurring that could have honestly been avoided.<\/p>\n<p>A wholesome romance with lovable characters and a quaint setting, I give <em>The Lighthouse Keeper<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lighthouse Keeper Year: 2017 Author: Cynthia Ellingsen Length: 380 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM A GOODREADS GIVEAWAY*** I\u2019d love to call this book \u201ccute,\u201d but I\u2019m afraid Kip would toss me into Lake Michigan. That being said, part of me now wants to go out, get a nautical compass tattoo on my arm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,54],"tags":[349,55,99,662,659,8,661,660],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-book","tag-349","tag-book","tag-cliche","tag-cute","tag-cynthia-ellingsen","tag-review","tag-romantic","tag-the-lighthouse-keeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}