Lake in the Clouds

Author: Sara Donati
Genre: Historical Fiction
Type: e-audiobook
Series: #3 in the Into The Wilderness series
Publisher: Random House Audio
First Published: August 13, 2009
Opening Lines: "Runaway from the Subscriber, William Braun, and indented apprentice, uncommon tall and fair, speaks a broken English. All persons, especially masters of vessels bound for German-speaking ports, are forbid harboring said William upon penalty of law."

Book Description from GoodReads: In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.

My Rating: 4 stars

My Review: I've said it before and I'll say it again, Sara Donati's Into the Wilderness series is one of my all-time favourite Historical Fiction series. Period. The end. I have read all six books in the past but recently have been buying the digital audiobooks through Audible and slowing listening to them.

In this third book of the series, and it's a biggie at 24 hours long, Kate Reading (one of my favourite narrators) gives the multiple characters their own tone and voices which only enhance the story. Readers, who have hopefully read the first two books in the series already, quickly become embroiled in the lives, loves and losses of the Bonner family and the residents of the small town of Paradise. I enjoyed how Hannah/Walks Ahead is more of the focus of this book and how the residents, like Jemima Southern, are incorporated into the bigger story lines. 

While this book isn't my favourite in the series, it was still a great read/listen. I continue to enjoy seeing the challenges and adventures of the Bonner clan. It has wonderful characters, adventure and drama and I eagerly look forward to listening to the next book in the series, Fire Along the Sky, soon.