Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This month I am going with Jess Walter and The Beautiful Ruins. This may be the best book I have read all year. It is about so many things I can hardly begin to provide you with a coherent plotline. It is about a young Italian innkeeper living on the coast of Italy and running the family hotel in a tiny village in the early 1960s. An actress fled from the production site of the movie Cleopatra arrives, waiting for someone to arrive. All sorts of strange and wonderful things happen because of this. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are involved. Typically shady Italian gangsters and a Hollywood producer show up. This is a love story and a story about life and death and acceptance of fate. I absolutely loved it, but then I love all of Jess’s books. If you need a break from all that fantasy, try this.
One response to “Terry Reviews: Beautiful Ruins”
I wasn’t really satisfied with the Dark Wraith of Shannara. It left me wanting more. I like books I can bury myself in, books that last more than half an hour. But I love the other books in both the Shannara series and the Word and the Void. I’d love to see another book in the Word and the Void series.