false <![CDATA[Jamaica Inn]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170367873m/50244.jpg 50244 51 <I>Jamaica Inn</I> is a true classic. After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan travels to Jamaica Inn on the wild British moors to live with her Aunt Patience. The coachman warns her of the strange happenings there, but Mary is committed to remain at Jamaica Inn. Suddenly, her life is in the hands of strangers: her uncle, Joss Merlyn, whose crude ways repel her; Aunt Patience, who seems mentally unstable and perpetually frightened; and the enigmatic Francis Davey. But most importantly, Mary meets Jem Merlyn, Joss's younger brother, whose kisses make her heart race. Caught up in the danger at this inn of evil repute, Mary must survive murder, mystery, storms, and smugglers before she can build a life with Jem. 430524 book 1936 Jamaica Inn total:1581|5:316|4:607|3:507|2:125|1:26| 1581 5805 2109 177 2 3 false false Sun Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 07:21:20 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 18 02:55:32 -0800 2008
I loved Rebecca, it was beautifully and thoughtfully written, but Jamaica Inn leaves me cold and it shouldn't. I really didn't want it to. It has all of the ingredients of a dark and exciting adventure and yet...it is populated by caricatures, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 01:32:32 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 13:11:03 -0700 2009 1 Rebecca, and Frenchman's Creek), seems incapable of writing anything less than brilliant. Master storyteller is, in her case, an extremely well deserved plaudit.

Mary Yellan, newly orphaned,...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Feb 20 20:26:25 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 20:30:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Thu Jul 05 06:24:34 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 06:28:03 -0700 2007
Poor Mary has no idea what she's getting in to when she goes to live with he...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 23 11:51:41 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 11:52:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 08:41:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 16:55:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Aug 13 20:30:05 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 22:20:27 -0700 2009
The book jacket promises, 'a dark and intriguing gothic tale that will remind readers of two other great classics, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights'...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 19:03:22 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 16:06:54 -0700 2009 The coachman warns her of the strange happenings there, but Mary is committed to remain at Jamaica Inn. Suddenly, her life is in the hands o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 06:26:51 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 06:53:54 -0700 2009
Jamaica Inn is a coming-of-age story with a 19th century Gothic setting in the highlands above Cornwall. Upon the death of her mother, Mary Yellan leaves the farm to live with her aunt in the isolated old Jamaica Inn. Her baggage consists of a complete ignoran...more...]]> 4 3 true false Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 14:53:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 12:28:24 -0700 2009 1
It is set in the late 19th century and is the story of Mary Yellan who moves to stay with her Aunt and Uncle at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor when her m...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 20:13:11 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 17:39:39 -0700 2009 Rebecca and was looking forward to Jamaica Inn, but once I got to it I was pretty disappointed.

This book should be wonderful - the rundown inn isolated on the moors in Cornwall, smugglers, wreckers, murderers and thieves - what more could you ask for in a plot for a gothic thril...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 18:21:11 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 18:29:46 -0800 2008 Rebecca. While this was an engaging story and darker/grittier than I expected, it was still pretty formulaic and shallow. I've decided that this author and others like her wrote the mass-market-paperback-bodice rippers of the...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 04:59:11 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 05:10:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 03:17:20 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 17:26:48 -0700 2009
From the first chapter Jamaica Inn grips the reader, everything is mysterious and dangerous and w...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 04 09:19:18 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 09:33:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Nov 20 04:17:59 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 09:44:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 08:49:42 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 13:40:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Thu Oct 30 16:52:22 -0700 2008 Thu May 07 20:39:12 -0700 2009 2 4 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 19 08:43:11 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 11:52:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:02:58 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 08:12:49 -0700 2009
Set in the early 1800's, but worlds away from Jane Austen's genteel society, Mary Yellen must live with her aunt after her mother dies. At 23 she's been used to living on a farm and can hold her own but never expected t...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=50244