In a fitting follow-up to "Hotel Paradise" and "Cold Flat Junction, New York Times" bestselling author Grimes returns with her third novel featuring the quirky and precocious Emma Graham.
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In a fitting follow-up to "Hotel Paradise" and "Cold Flat Junction, New York Times" bestselling author Grimes returns with her third novel featuring the quirky and precocious Emma Graham.
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Add this copy of Belle Ruin to cart. $6.91, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Thorndike Press.
Add this copy of Belle Ruin to cart. $40.56, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Thorndike Press.
A book should have a beginning, middle and end. This story peters out on page 346 without any conclusion. While the Emma character is fun, the prose evocative, dangling the reader at the end is mean spirited. If you're writing a trilogy, call it that. Otherwise, a novel should be able to stand on its own (ie: Janet Evanovich) without the reader desperate for the next installment. As with the last Richard Jury novel (in which Grimes gives thoughts and actions to a cat and a dog -- which ruined the series for me), I'm very disappointed by this book.
janiebug
Apr 4, 2007
I have read this book twice and will read it again it is very entertaining. After reading Belle Ruin , I then had to read the previous books. They were good too. I bought this book on Alibris at a bargain after reading it at the library. It is the best of the author's works in my opinion.
