They broke the mold after Dumas wrote “The Count of Monte Cristo.” There will never be a revenge plot as ambitious, as smooth, as Rube Goldbergian, as violent, as tense, or as passionate as this. This is the Ur Revenge Plot. I devoured this book. Inhaled it. And it’s partly because my brain melted a bit after the election, and then I was doggedly rebuilding my spirits with Solnit’s “Hope in the Dark” (TBR) (GET OFF MY BACK), and then it was Thanksgiving, and I do a whole thing, because Thanksgiving is my Superbowl. Whatever. Anyway, I started on Saturday […]
Bored. I’m so bored.
The Daring Exploits of a Runaway Heiress by Victoria Alexander
This book was just so boring. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing particularly right about it either. If you’re looking for a completely generic historical romance, look no further. Lucy Merryweather is an American heiress on her own in London. She has not run away, but traveled to visit her ex-fiance and has decided to stay and have some fun. Along with the money she inherited from her great aunt, she also inherited a diary that lists all of the aunt’s regrets in life. Lucy decides to complete everything on her aunt’s list before heading home and once again becoming […]
8/29/2016
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