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  • Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn

  • By: Amber Logan
  • Narrated by: Emily Ellet
  • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn

By: Amber Logan
Narrated by: Emily Ellet
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Publisher's summary

Cracked doesn’t always mean broken.

Grieving her mother’s death, Mari Lennox travels to Kyoto, Japan to take photographs of Yanagi Inn for a client. As she explores the inn and its grounds, her camera captures striking images, uncovering layers of mystery shrouding the old resort—including an overgrown, secret garden on a forbidden island. But then eerie weeping no one else in the inn seems to hear starts keeping her awake at night.

Despite the warnings of the staff, Mari searches the deep recesses of the old building to discover the source of the ghostly sound, only to realize that her own family’s history is tied to the inn, its mysterious, forlorn garden . . . and the secrets it holds.

©2022 Amber Logan (P)2022 CamCat Books
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The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn is an adult retelling of The Secret Garden and it comes close to fulfilling that mission. Amber Logan has set this book perfectly and the Inn is fully realized as a character in its own right. The characters are well drawn in some areas but lacking in others so they did not feel quite as three dimensional as I would have liked. Still, I thought all of them fit the purpose of the plot so that worked for me. I had two issues with the book but I don’t think either of them should dissuade someone else from purchasing and reading it. For me, it is a bit repetitive in the middle and, more importantly, gives grief the same note over and over again. (I got tired of the main character telling herself to breathe and asking “what is wrong with me?”) I also felt like the thing The Secret Garden did best, and probably the reason it is a classic, was because the author knew a great deal about the natural world and was able to bring it’s healing out through description. This book is much more cursory in that way. Nature is featured but not to a degree that connotes intimacy. Overall, I am glad to have read this retelling but would not necessarily read it again, but one never knows!

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