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The Paradise Guest House (2013)

by Ellen Sussman(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0345522818 (ISBN13: 9780345522818)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: Jamie is returning to Bali a year after she was caught in the nightclub bombing. She is looking for the man who worked with her in helping victims and then saved her and supported her for a few days. Although she had liked Gabe she was fighting the guilt she had felt after turning down a proposal from another man who was killed in the bombing. Now she has returned for a remembrance of the event. She meets new people: the owner of the inn who has his own memories, a thief whom every loves, a yoga instructor and others who survived. Is finding Gabe going to complete her life or will she find him still remembering the death of his son years before and is she searching for closure or love. Well written picture of the emotions of people and how they are formed by experi... moreences, Sussman tells the story in three parts; one past and two present. The story is easily believable and an excellent picture of how people deal with horrible events in their past. Looking forward to reading more of the author's books.
review 2: I like to read novels about places I'm familiar with. So I was in Bali (again) and I picked this up book up. I wish I had paid more attention at the bookstore because it turned out to be more romance novel than something that captured the essence of Bali. To the majority audience of a novel, details about unfamiliar places may not particularly matter as long as they seem plausible. As a connoisseur of novels with familiar settings details are important to me. The most irksome detail in The Paradise Guest House was that Jamie, the protagonist Bali bombing survivor, was always paying (her sometime "gopher" Bambang, others) in happily received, low denomination US dollars. Well Bali is covered in money changers and they don't like small denomination bills...(well maybe they do, with those drastically deflated exchange rates they offer for them). Anyway, paying locals in singles and twenties doesn't happen in Bali. Like the rest of Indonesia, it's rupiah. On the plus side, the story moved along and turned into a quick read. It just wasn't what I expected. Nor was it much of a serious treatment of the tragic Bali bombing if it ever aspired to that... less

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