82. Receive Me Falling by Erika Robuck

I borrowed this book from Booklogged because she gave it a pretty good review and I usually agree with her taste in books. This one was a bit of a disappointment to me though. It's the story of a young woman, Meg, with everything going for her when her life falls apart. She travels to the Caribbean island of Nevia to decide what to do with Eden, a plantation left to her by her recently deceased parents. The story than switches between Meg's present-day story and that of Catherine, the young lady of Eden who lived in the 1830's. I enjoyed the descriptions of the island, and was horrified as always by the ghastly treatment of the slaves; but, with the exception of Catherine, I didn't really find myself involved with any of the characters. There's a bit of a ghost story, a bit of a romance, a bit of a historical mystery, a bit of embezzlement, etc, etc. Some of the story lines are wrapped up, not always satisfactorily; and some never did come to completion. On top of all that, I found the ending to be flat and anti-climatic. The cover is wonderful and ties into the story, but this was part of the unsatisfactory ending. I guess the book just never quite captivated me which explains why it took me a week to read it. Rating: 3.5