Title: A Room Full of BonesAuthors: Elly Griffith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 3, 2012)
Format: ARC
Genre: Mystery / Suspense
Source: Amazon Vine
Series: Ruth Galloway #4
You have no idea how I had waited for this book to arrive. I love this series, but unfortunately, this is the slowest most monotonous of the bunch. A rehashing of the last three books, with sections that read more like thoughts than actual sentences. Just so she will not completely lose the reader, there are bits of a new storyline thrown in to keep the reader moving forward.
So, what did we learn? Nelson’s wife does have multiple jealous bones in her body, but just might love her husband enough to allow Kate in. Unscrupulous people do use animals for purposes other than what they are intended. Do not open coffins when you are told not to and always wear a mask. It is possible for frumpy middle-aged archaeologist to have love interests. Cathbad is an interesting character that has a way of entering into a person’s coma and bringing the person back from the dead and it is quite possible that religious figures could be female.
Yep, that pretty much sums up the whole book.
This book was an insult to her loyal readers, if we are confused by something that the author said we are more than capable of looking over the older books to refresh a series of events.
I admit that I had put this book down several times and picked up others, not one of the characters or the setting had me fully interested in this book. I felt that Ms Griffiths had no interest in writing a book, but was under a contractual bond and therefore threw something together quickly. How said that she chose to insult her readers that way.
A fun fact - Elly Griffith has been writing for years under another name - Domenica de Rosa. The Italian Quarter was published in 2004
“Sophie Richmond is only a quarter Italian yet this quarter has dominated her life in the person of her charismatic grandfather Cesare. Then a journalist starts asking questions about Cesare’s war record and Sophie embarks on a journey into the past which takes her from nineteenth century Naples to London’s Italian quarter and one of the war’s forgotten tragedies. Along the way she also learns something very important about herself…”
So, what did we learn? Nelson’s wife does have multiple jealous bones in her body, but just might love her husband enough to allow Kate in. Unscrupulous people do use animals for purposes other than what they are intended. Do not open coffins when you are told not to and always wear a mask. It is possible for frumpy middle-aged archaeologist to have love interests. Cathbad is an interesting character that has a way of entering into a person’s coma and bringing the person back from the dead and it is quite possible that religious figures could be female.
Yep, that pretty much sums up the whole book.
This book was an insult to her loyal readers, if we are confused by something that the author said we are more than capable of looking over the older books to refresh a series of events.
I admit that I had put this book down several times and picked up others, not one of the characters or the setting had me fully interested in this book. I felt that Ms Griffiths had no interest in writing a book, but was under a contractual bond and therefore threw something together quickly. How said that she chose to insult her readers that way.
A fun fact - Elly Griffith has been writing for years under another name - Domenica de Rosa. The Italian Quarter was published in 2004
“Sophie Richmond is only a quarter Italian yet this quarter has dominated her life in the person of her charismatic grandfather Cesare. Then a journalist starts asking questions about Cesare’s war record and Sophie embarks on a journey into the past which takes her from nineteenth century Naples to London’s Italian quarter and one of the war’s forgotten tragedies. Along the way she also learns something very important about herself…”
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