Starlight on Willow Lake (The Lakeshore Chronicles, 11) Mass Market Paperback – February 23, 2016

Starlight on Willow Lake does not disappoint the reader who feels like he/she is right there watching every movement described in detail. The continuation of the characters' lives includes the reader as he/she passes through one novel in this series after another. They become old friends.

Susan Wiggs has excellent writing skills. She has developed storylines around a town/area in the Catskills of New York. Each storyline is well developed, detailed and interesting and can stand on its own yet ties into the other books. It is such a pleasure to read her books. The editing on them is excellent too.Each story pulls at our heart strings because these are real life type of stories/situations. You become invested in the characters.I can't wait for the next book to come out.

Once again, Susan Wiggs brings the characters to life, and lets us see the various sides that are within all of us. Sometimes we do things because we think it is the right thing, sometimes we do things, knowing it doesn't feel right, and sometimes we do it because we know it is the right thing. I think all of these elements are shown in this book. Love the Willow Lake series - try not to miss any of them.

Sweet story. Good character development for the first half of the book. About 3/4 of the way through it felt rushed and long periods of time lumped together. Would have preferred a max. of 3 characters to developed main storyline. It was hard to tell after awhile who the main focus should be on. If you want really deep feelings and romance this isn't the book for you. It is sweet and rated G for sure but not deep enough for me.

I really enjoyed the strong female characters, Faith being a single mom doing her best to provide for her girls. Cara determined to be different and not allow pier pressure to mold her into what other kids think you should be. April for recognising her strengths and weaknesses, determined to make life a better place by being honest with herself and others. Ruby for sparking life into so many of the people around her. I love the lake shore chronicles series, I have read them all and would highly recommend all of the books in series.

I love Susan Wiggs' Lakeshore Chronicles - one of my favorite series that I reread regularly! This was no exception. Great book - I still wish I could move to Avalon. :-)My one quibble with this book is - what was Logan doing drinking beer? His storyline up until now has been very consistent and it just doesn't make sense to have him kicking back with a beer after work with no explanation given.

I absolutely adored this book. I had trouble putting it down! Ms. Wiggs writing of family stories is absolutely amazing. She mixes humor with profound human experiences in love, family values, and life. I have a feeling my next book is going to be another in the series.

Another wonderful love story set in the upstate New York lakeside community Wiggs has painted so convincingly in her other Lakeshore novels. Always something interesting too, in this case a paraplegic character with a dachshund as trained therapy dog, and a little girl with diabetes. Wiggs fits all the pieces together with a talent for evoking emotion, and with characters so real you expect to run into them at the grocery store.

This is the 11th in a series, and all of Susan Wiggs' fans hope for more: and even though there may have been suggestions that this is the last, this fan hopes not. This book centres round more members of the well off Bellamy family, leading inhabitants of the upstate lakeside town of Avalon where you can if need be just about occasionally commute to New York; it has several leading characters, the paraplegic sexagenarian and embittered Alice Bellamy, mother of three adult children, athlete and do gooder, crippled in a devastating avalanche whilst ski ing with her husband who was killed; her gorgeous wealthy successful son, Mason, a thirty + financier, with a closed off heart; her staff; her carer, Faith, a young widow with two daughters, debt ridden with huge medical bills still to pay off for her fatally diabetic husband Dennis, left with teenage Cara, an academic high flyer with seemingly no way to finance a college education, and Ruby, an 8 year old diabetic.....and more of the extended network of family and friends in Avalon. We know - thank heavens for romance - that we will edge our way to an HEA, or a Happy beginning, but along the way there are health crises, emotional crises, betrayals from the past and other secrets revealed, and incidentally we learn a lot about diabetes, American health systems (horrors for those of us still helped by the NHS in the UK) how paraplegia has to be physically dealt with, catheters and all, and even what new controversial treatments may be available, and we are told how to ski if an avalanche threatens......relationships change and grow as the characters grow, and we would really really really like to meet them again. Adam! Ivy! Milo! Does Faith have another child? (she is only 34...)Not to mention the great dogs. MORE PLEASE this series is addictive---in the best way.

Wow, I have just had a bookfest re-reading all 10 of the previous books of Lakeside Chronicles and have loved each & everyone of them.I love the fact that they are all so different from each other, but still centre around the family and location. Having the stories weave around the original characters, but bringing in new ones always leaves the reader wanting more.This final book in this series was the perfect way to end it. I’m sad that there will be no more books about the Bellamy Family and their struggles, but happy that I’m not left wondering what happened to so & so. Thank you

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Lots happening. Kept my attention. Easy read. Only issue was that I felt the Paris scenes were padded with a lot of descriptions and minutiae of French life. Also I thought the ending was abrupt.

Another great read In The Lakeshore Chronicles series Thoroughly enjoyable Ha e read so many of Susan Wiggs books Off to find another one Thank you

Good storytelling as usual from Susan Wiggs but a different approach. Still enjoyable.