Tiffanie's Reviews > Drowning Ruth

Drowning Ruth was an Oprah book a few years ago, which just supports my opinion that Oprah doesn't actually read the books before they become part of her book club and go on to sell millions and millions.

I wasn't all that excited about this book when my book group voted on it in December, but I was pleasantly surprised with how compelling the beginning was. It started out as a mystery with very few clues, so I wanted to keep reading. But after a while what had happened and what was going to happen was pretty obvious, so it wasn't quite as compelling anymore. But I did want to see how it was going to end.

Unfortunately, none of the characters were likable... I didn't really care what happened to them, and didn't really care if there was a happy ending or not. Carl was the only character I really liked, and he disappeared half way through the book. Like several other books that we've read in the last couple years, the ending was so-so. It seems like so many authors get tired and kind of wimp out at the end of the book. It's too bad because the book had a lot of potential--multiple narrators, shifts in time--but was just kind of blah.