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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
Audiobook Review: This is one of the books I’ve read this year, that I loved. It brought me to tears. These well written characters based on real people. The Delicious “scandal” and tragedy. Can you imagine if this were a real memoir to her son. This was a well written book. The story made my heart flutter. The characters I actually loved and cared about. Even though I knew how the story ended. Madeline even cared about the minor characters like Kitty the Dog.. the valet that was lost. She even cared for her nurse and maid. Even though this is a work of historical fiction based on true events. It does bring about the life of which these characters lived.
The Narrator: she did a well enough job. But… it’s the breathiness that got me.
The Narrator: she did a well enough job. But… it’s the breathiness that got me.
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I enjoyed the lush prose, well-researched historical details, and deep emotional exploration of grief and survival. While the pacing may be slow at times, the richly developed character of Madeleine and the dramatic events surrounding the Titanic disaster kept me engaged until the very end.
This was fine for me. I liked hearing a piece of historical fiction based on some of Titanic’s famous passengers.
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was a fascinating story that I knew nothing about. The paparazzi was as brutal then as it is now, now to mention the snooty ladies of society. The story drug a bit for me, but all-in-all in was good book.
emotional
slow-paced
I didn’t realize Madeline is a real person, a fact I learned reading the acknowledgments. What an interesting tale of love despite societal rules, a glimpse in the early 1900s and of course, a fictional look at the Titanic’s demise. I thought this was well done, well researched and entertaining.
I found the main character thoroughly unlikeable—what an entitled brat! I guess just the excess of all of the Ridiculously wealthy people glorified really turned me off.
This book is about the young woman who catches the eye of Colonel Jack Astor, one of the wealthiest men in the U.S. in 1910. He is recently divorced and much older than 17-year-old Madeleine and from a much loftier social circle. But their love prevails, and amid much press scrutiny, they are married when she turns 18, and leave for an extended honeymoon tour of Europe and Egypt. I enjoyed the novel's description of what it was like to be rich tourists in Egypt just before World War I. The newlyweds head back to the States on the ill-fated Titanic and history buffs will know the rest of this tragic tale. Despite knowing what happens (the author tells us at the beginning), the novel offers a fresh look at the Titanic tragedy as well as a fascinating peak at the privileged lives of New York's elite and one woman's attempt to negotiate this hierarchy. I enjoyed reading it but readers who want more action and less history may get bored.