This was January's pick in my online book club THE READING COVE. The story began mildly for me but hooked me by Ch. 9, and for the next several hundred pages, it became unputdownable! But then, Part 3 came. Whoosh! All the air was let out of the balloon. What a disappointment!
The main character, India Jones, does something that is so out of character, it's too contrived to be believed. From there on, the entire story had zero credibility and descended into a meandering of coincidence after coincidence until it overstayed it's welcome by about 250 pages and puttered to an agonized stop. Can you tell I was disappointed? Geesh.
I read THE TEA ROSE and enjoyed it a lot. It was nice to see the characters, Fiona and Joe, along in THE WINTER ROSE, but I can say without hesitation that I have zero interest in reading the last book in the series, THE WILD ROSE. Seamie and Willa were introduced too late in the story for me to care about them, and just seemed like distractions from India, Sid and the rest. I mostly skimmed their portions. Yawn.
I'm open to other books by Jennifer Donnelly, but this is it for me with the Rose series. Too bad. Sigh.
The main character, India Jones, does something that is so out of character, it's too contrived to be believed. From there on, the entire story had zero credibility and descended into a meandering of coincidence after coincidence until it overstayed it's welcome by about 250 pages and puttered to an agonized stop. Can you tell I was disappointed? Geesh.
I read THE TEA ROSE and enjoyed it a lot. It was nice to see the characters, Fiona and Joe, along in THE WINTER ROSE, but I can say without hesitation that I have zero interest in reading the last book in the series, THE WILD ROSE. Seamie and Willa were introduced too late in the story for me to care about them, and just seemed like distractions from India, Sid and the rest. I mostly skimmed their portions. Yawn.
I'm open to other books by Jennifer Donnelly, but this is it for me with the Rose series. Too bad. Sigh.
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