The Night Following
by Morag Joss
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Author: Morag JossEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-27
ISBN: 0385341199
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Delta
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Book Review: Interesting...up to the last few chapters
Summary: 1 Stars
When I started this book, I knew I would be drawn into it. I was, the further I got, and up until the last few chapters I would have considered this a five-star. As it neared almost the very end, the story took on a completely different tone. The rest of this review contains spoilers...
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I think it may have been the very worst ending I've ever read in a book. I thought the way it ended was absolutely depressing, to say the least. For one thing, so many ends were left untied, such as how Ruth knew the life story of the woman who killed her. Ruth's chapters of her unfinished novel "The Cold and the Beauty and the Dark" are interlaced within the main story, and at the end of "The Night Following" we are left disappointed to say the least as to how on earth Ruth knew the story, how or if she was somehow connected to the family of the woman who killed her, etc. How could such an important piece of the plot be left to just hang? I thought the story took a downright weird and disturbing turn, and the rambling toward the very end got to be so strange none of it was even making any sense and instead was turning into a story I felt I hadn't even read. Aside from this, I wish the author (Morag Joss) would have given the protagonist (the one responsible for Ruth's accidental death) a name. Why did she bother to give her husband (Jeremy) a name, when he barely has any part in the book, but not the guilty woman? Why not just leave them both unnamed if you aren't going to bother? I think at the end we should have found out her name and her true identity. At the end, we are given the feeling that she has turned into a drifter. I take it that she is supposed to probably just leave herself for dead, or that she will somehow purposely cause her own death. Why couldn't this story have had a much happier ending? Had I been the author and I would have given this story a far more reasonable climax, having the woman come forward with her guilt and get herself and Arthur the help they so obviously needed.
I give this story one star, instead of the five it would have deserved had it not been for the dreadful way it turned out.
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