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The Potter's House

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Spoiler Ahead! I thought this was a great book. Other reviewers complained about the ending leaving the reader in limbo. I believe that the ending was the key to the entire story, kind of like how the ending of "The Sixth Sense" changes your perception of the events in the movie. My interpretation of the ending was that it reveals that Kitty actually died in the earthquake at the beginning of the book. The entire rest of the story was a surreal "flashback" about the life that never happened, i.e. the life she would have led had the tragic event of her childhood never occurred. Olivia's is the life that Kitty should have had.

This was a pretty good book until the ending. I could not wait to get there and when I did it made me want to throw the book away. The characters were good and the setting and all but there were a lot of things that left me wondering. The ending made me want to say "It that all there is." I would not recommend this book.

Having never read anything by this author I was a little skeptical but willing to give her a try. The book was very easy to get into, and the author did a great job of describing the island setting in Greece. At the end I found myself asking where the next chapter was, because surely this cannot be the end. Maybe the reader is just supposed to draw their own conclusions. It's like going to a movie and the plot is so ambiguous and you spend so much time trying to figure it out, that it looses all of it's entertainment value. Probably will never read any of her other books.

I loved this book , all of its characters, the locale, the fast pace and couldn't wait to get to the ending. The ending was a non-ending and I felt in limbo. It felt like a rip-off. I wish that Rosie Thomas could write another ending that would fulfill the promise of this great book. Judy