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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
A little silly with unbelievable plot points, as most have pointed out, but overall enjoyable, especially as an audiobook.
I quite enjoyed The Other Daughter as a fun, light read. The quick, witty dialogue between Rachel and Simon was entertaining and made me want to keep reading. I felt like most of the other characters were not fleshed out well but I think that also fit with the plot as Rachel seemed to consider them as characters in a story and not real people with real emotions.
Decent story and characters, but a very half-hearted love story threaded in at the end.
After her mother dies of influenza, Rachel stumbles upon a picture torn from the society pages of a magazine. It's of her father who she thought was dead together with his daughter –– the eponymous other daughter. As an earl he has everything, wealth, status and respect. All things she lacks.
She forms an uneasy alliance with Simon, a gossip columnist who is a society insider and manages to insinuate herself into the bright young things of London in the 1920s. But as she sets her plan into motion to confront the father who abandoned her, everything starts crashing down around her.
The Other Daughter is good...occasionally it's brilliant but it still somehow managed to leave me feeling a little unsatisfied. The resolutions are painfully sparse and in some cases completely absent. You grow to love Olivia and Cece but they just disappear without so much as a 'by your leave'.
Overall, it's worth the effort but those few missteps tarnished an otherwise great book.
She forms an uneasy alliance with Simon, a gossip columnist who is a society insider and manages to insinuate herself into the bright young things of London in the 1920s. But as she sets her plan into motion to confront the father who abandoned her, everything starts crashing down around her.
The Other Daughter is good...occasionally it's brilliant but it still somehow managed to leave me feeling a little unsatisfied. The resolutions are painfully sparse and in some cases completely absent. You grow to love Olivia and Cece but they just disappear without so much as a 'by your leave'.
Overall, it's worth the effort but those few missteps tarnished an otherwise great book.
DNF @17%
The Other Daughter is one of the books that was on my tbr the longest. Since I decided one of my reading goals for this year was to read more of the books I first added to my “want to read” list, this book finally made its way into my hands.
Unfortunately, it made its way into my hands at the wrong time. Most days I can power through books I don’t like and that bore me because that’s just the reader I am. In this instance, I couldn’t keep going after 50 pages. I just did not care. I didn’t care about the main character, I didn’t care about the plot, and I didn’t care to read large pages with tiny font. It was taking me too long to make small amounts of progress, and I’m not a slow reader.
The premise of this book is great. I was immediately intrigued. But Rachel is too bland. She’s boring. We don’t get a feel for her character at all. Also, she remembers way too many things about her father’s hair and presence for him having “died” when she was 4 years old. That was too unbelievable for me to like.
This book and I just weren’t a good fit. I’m glad I gave it a try, but I won’t be finishing it.
The Other Daughter is one of the books that was on my tbr the longest. Since I decided one of my reading goals for this year was to read more of the books I first added to my “want to read” list, this book finally made its way into my hands.
Unfortunately, it made its way into my hands at the wrong time. Most days I can power through books I don’t like and that bore me because that’s just the reader I am. In this instance, I couldn’t keep going after 50 pages. I just did not care. I didn’t care about the main character, I didn’t care about the plot, and I didn’t care to read large pages with tiny font. It was taking me too long to make small amounts of progress, and I’m not a slow reader.
The premise of this book is great. I was immediately intrigued. But Rachel is too bland. She’s boring. We don’t get a feel for her character at all. Also, she remembers way too many things about her father’s hair and presence for him having “died” when she was 4 years old. That was too unbelievable for me to like.
This book and I just weren’t a good fit. I’m glad I gave it a try, but I won’t be finishing it.
I read this because I'm a huge fan of the author's Pink Carnation series (and I'm kinda in denial that the final volume comes out next week). I have liked her stand alone novels, just not as much as the Pink ones. The stand alones keep getting better, this was my favorite of the three. I liked the time period a lot. I haven't read many books set after WWI and it is kind of fascinating how British society tried to re-adjust, to go back to the way things were before, when that was impossible. Rachel was an intriguing character. Her motivations were completely understandable. It is easy to relate to the range of emotions she goes through as she discovers who exactly she is. I would recommend this book to fans of Downton Abbey. It is in the same time period and focuses on characters who are on the outside of the aristocracy looking in.
3.5 stars. The story was rather cliche, but I enjoyed the writing and the characters. This book had a fitting ending though I can't help but wish things had gone a different way. I truly feel sorry for Olivia.
A strong story but not my favorite. I wasn't sure if it was a revenge story or a love story. Perhaps an underwhelming mixture of both. The writing was strong but the character development was a but undeveloped in my opinion. It was a unique perspective of a woman uncovering the truths behind her past.
I am pretty much always down for a twenties book, assuming it's not terribly written, and this one was pretty decent. I think that it's a bit simple and it doesn't quite sparkle the way I would've liked, but I did enjoy it and the part of me who spent way to long reading real-life accounts of Bright Young Things following a wallowing in Mitford and Waugh appreciated the accuracy of names and players.