Authors should just not be allowed to die with unfinished books. So there.
Why didn’t anyone warn…
Why didn't anyone warn me?! I can't express the frustration of reading a 648-page book, getting to the penultimate chapter...and then getting a letter from the editors, informing me that the author *died* before finishing the book, and that she surely would have had this, this and that happen if she had finished it. Argh! I want my dramatic climax! I want my romantic resolution! I mean, of course I *know* what's going to happen in the last chapter (after 648 pages, you have a pretty good idea of everybody's characters and exactly how it'll all work out), but it's just not the same as having the same voice *tell* you what's going to happen, and exactly how it happened. Not to mention that I think the editors were wrong in some of their projections -- of course Molly doesn't end up in London...why else would Dr. Gibson establish Aimee in the little house away from Hamley Hall?