Stars: 2 / 5
Recommendation: Yes, it was short for the book, but it thoroughly bored me even though it went a bit interesting when the author blended all the novellas together towards the end of her story.
Ritual in Death is the sixth novella in the long running In Death Series by J. D. Robb, the alter ego of the famous American romance novelist Nora Roberts. This was originally published in Suite 606 anthology book in November of 2008 in which Nora published her novella with three of her recurring authors – Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan and Mary Kay McComas.
The fourth novella is Wayward Wizard by Mary Kay McComas. This takes us on a journey that a mother and son make to the past, future and present; in the process find each other.
A short novella again, but a little boring for my taste. However, the author did thank all the three other authors from this book in the beginning of the novel. I like the fact that even though the mother and son travel to past way way way past. However when they travel with the wizard they meet, the three of them go to the future where they are in the In Death series by J.D. Robb and go the same place where J. D. Robb makes her character Eve see them in the short novella Ritual in Death.
Then the author sends them into the regency era where they meet Mary Blaney’s ghost Reggie Cassidy, to the exact position in the novella Love Endures by Mary Blaney.
Then finally she takes them to the present, to the time we see in Ruth Ryan Langan’s Cold Case novella. We also get to see that the author has another character in the Suite 606 of The Palace Hotel, a hotel that the heroine always imagined to stay.
Yes, it was short for the book, but it thoroughly bored me even though it went a bit interesting when the author blended all the novellas together towards the end of her story. That’s why I guess no one reviewed it better.
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