Terminal Grill by Rosemary Aubert


Terminal Grill
Title : Terminal Grill
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ISBN : 1927443431
ISBN-10 : 9781927443439
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 154
Publication : First published January 4, 2013

At a questionable literary event in a seedy bar in the Toronto of the 1980's, a 40-something woman meets the proverbial dark, handsome stranger. Lulled by poetry, music and drink, she begins a relationship with a person whose past, present and chancy future seem to be created out of nothing. As she struggles to find out who and what this person really is, she is drawn more and more deeply into the sensuous trap of his compelling sexuality. In an age before Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, she has no way to learn the true identity of the man who is soon claiming more and more of her life. And ultimately, no way to figure out how to escape...

Terminal Grill Reviews

  • Lucile Barker

    108. Terminal Grill by Rosemary Aubert
    A dark standalone novel about a woman taken in by a con man. It is set in the 1980’s and feels very dated because no one has cell phones or the internet. Marie meets Matthew at a poetry reading and is drawn in with his tales of being a musician and songwriter. More and more of his stories prove to be false, but she is unable to stop his manipulation. Their frequent meeting place, the Terminal Grill, is based on a recently closed restaurant on the Danforth. I have been there on several occasions and it was as dismal as this story. Marie’s lack of spine was more aggravating than endearing. Give me Ellis Portal any day.

  • Marie

    this short novel is written in the female first person - a woman describes a brief, impulsive but very intense encounter with a stranger who becomes more than a stranger - but no less strange - perhaps a bit too quickly. A dark tale of obsession, dependency, and momentary loss of direction. Our self-aware heroine betrays herself over and over again as she falls under the spell of Matthew, a man both intriguing and repulsive. Terminal Grill is a lesson for each of us - sometimes we just can't help it. Well done Rosemary!

  • Linda

    Excellent! Just loved this book. Maybe we can see something of ourselves here. Marie; we didn't know her name until the end of the story, meets a dark stranger at a "sort of" wake in Toronto for an old poet. She fell for him hook, line and sinker. Until discrepencies in his story begin to surface, she lives in his dreamworld.

  • Victoria

    Thoroughly enjoyed her Ellis Porter series. It was great to read her again. This book did not end as I thought it might. A quick suspenseful read.