carlamo - reviewed on 6/7/2010 + 269 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 11

I just finished reading "Town in a Blueberry Jam" for a swap. I really liked the prologue - a very interesting introduction to the story using a dying man's thoughts as they "flashed before his eyes" - but the ending was horrible. The author spent a long time developing the main characters, but, in the last 30 pages or so of the book, just dumped the ending in the reader's lap.

I won't give away the ending, but I absolutely *hate* it when cozy authors end a book by having a barely-mentioned character from the beginning of the book suddenly re-enter the story, pull a gun out and say, "Yes, that's right! I killed him/her! And I'll tell you why!" How lame.

I think this was the author's first book, and it showed a lot of promise, until the characters started acting in totally unbelievable ways, just to wrap up the story. I'll probably read the next book in the series, but if it follows the same pattern, it'll be the last one.

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