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The Lighthouse Keeper

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The Lighthouse Keeper

By: Alan K. Baker
Narrated by: Steven Cree
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A terrifying mystery of the sea. In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished without trace from the remote Scottish island of Eilean Mòr. An emergency relief crew was sent to man the lighthouse. At the end of their month-long duty, they resigned from their posts, and never spoke of what they had experienced on the island. The mystery of Eilean Mòr has never been solved. Until now. In the present, a group of environmental researchers arrives on the island to observe the wildlife. While exploring the lighthouse, now automated and deserted, one of the team discovers a manuscript written by one of the relief keepers, a man named Alec Dalemore.

As a sudden storm moves in, cutting off their escape, the researchers come to realise that Dalemore wrote the manuscript as a warning to all the lighthouse keepers who would come after him. A warning of something on Eilean Mòr and in the surrounding ocean - something ancient and powerful, and strange beyond imagining....

The Lighthouse Keeper is a supernatural tale based on the Flannan Isles mystery, one of the greatest unsolved enigmas in maritime history. Blending factual first hand reports with speculative fiction, the novel takes the listener on a journey to the edge of reality, where the greatest of human fears – the fear of the unknown – holds dominion.

©2012 Alan K. Baker (P)2012 Audible Ltd
Fantasy Fiction Paranormal Mystery

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Ninety percent of the book is amazing and the ending is a total disappointment.I thought this would be a five star listen until the concluding chapters.

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If you could sum up The Lighthouse Keeper in three words, what would they be?

the whole book was a page turner, with the narrator reallly good, but I found the ending difficult to comprehend
Janet Richards

What other book might you compare The Lighthouse Keeper to, and why?

any one of Stephen Kings

What about Steven Cree’s performance did you like?

Really Really good

overall a page turner.

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I loved this book. Not my usual choice and I thought it would be predictable, yet almost from the beginning I could not guess which way it would go.

Based around a small group on a tiny Scottish island it would be easy to think there wasn't much scope for a story yet the past is interwoven with the present, giving great scope for plot and character development, without getting boring or concentrating too much on just one or two main players.

The narrator had such a lovely soft voice it almost lulls you into a false sense of security, but he was excellent at portraying each character individually.

Brilliant, you MUST listen to this!!

Kept me guessing right up to the end

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The dialog is terrible, the narrator gives the timid characters confident voices and the confident, assertive characters are given timid voices. There are a couple of gaping plot holes you could drive a bus through and there's too much religious/scientific/gibberish spoke during periods of stress.

Despite all the above it's oddly compelling, probably because it's based on a true story. (sort of)

Interesting despite the author's best efforts.

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This is a well written story which will easily keep your attention and also keep you guessing about the outcome. The quality of descriptive passages is outstanding and the worth a 5 star rating. The switching between time periods adds an extra dimension.

Keeping it light

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