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I've finished Pamela Dean’s Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, which I loved loved loved even though it went off at the end. Possibly this is just something Dean’s books do? I thought Tam Lin ended quite abruptly too, although not quite as much as Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary.
But it’s not the kind of unsatisfying ending that spoils everything that came before. It doesn't retroactively invalidate Gentian's lovely friend group or her interesting family or anything else that happens in the book; it's just not very conclusive.
If anything, it’s unsatisfying because I wanted more. What’s going to happen to Gentian ( Spoilers )
I wanted at least another chapter - not least because then we would get to see Gentian’s friends again, and I wanted to spend as much time with the lot of them as possible. We do get another lovely sonnet from her best friend Becky, but I wanted more.
But in a way, that wanting more is a recommendation in itself: the book is such a pleasure to read, the characters such a pleasure to interact with, that I never wanted it to end. Despite the conclusion or lack thereof, I highly, highly recommend Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary.
But it’s not the kind of unsatisfying ending that spoils everything that came before. It doesn't retroactively invalidate Gentian's lovely friend group or her interesting family or anything else that happens in the book; it's just not very conclusive.
If anything, it’s unsatisfying because I wanted more. What’s going to happen to Gentian ( Spoilers )
I wanted at least another chapter - not least because then we would get to see Gentian’s friends again, and I wanted to spend as much time with the lot of them as possible. We do get another lovely sonnet from her best friend Becky, but I wanted more.
But in a way, that wanting more is a recommendation in itself: the book is such a pleasure to read, the characters such a pleasure to interact with, that I never wanted it to end. Despite the conclusion or lack thereof, I highly, highly recommend Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary.
