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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
At the risk of offending those true Maisie Dobb die-hard fans (my dear niece among them), I must admit that I don't LOVE the Maisie Dobbs mysteries by Jacqueline Winspear. I do enjoy them--the few that I have read (the fans insist I would love them more if I read them all). However, Leaving Everything Most Loved is a well written mystery novel and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Maisie Dobbs, a post-World War I London psychoanalyst and investigator, is asked by the police to investigate the murder of a young Indian woman. The case has gone cold and her brother has just arrived from India demanding answers. Maisie picks up the clues and finds herself becoming more and more interested in other cultures and realizes her desire to explore the world while she solves a murder.
The case is intriguing and well plotted and much of the book focuses on solving the mystery. Even Maisie, who I often find an annoying, meddling character incongruous with her historical setting, is less irritating in this novel. The novel does advance Maisie's personal story but focuses on it less or blends it better with the mystery she is trying to solve. I must admit, I'm even curious to see what Maisie's future holds. Is it possible that Jacqueline Winspear in Leaving Everything Most Loved has made me into a Maisie fan? It appears to be true.
Maisie Dobbs, a post-World War I London psychoanalyst and investigator, is asked by the police to investigate the murder of a young Indian woman. The case has gone cold and her brother has just arrived from India demanding answers. Maisie picks up the clues and finds herself becoming more and more interested in other cultures and realizes her desire to explore the world while she solves a murder.
The case is intriguing and well plotted and much of the book focuses on solving the mystery. Even Maisie, who I often find an annoying, meddling character incongruous with her historical setting, is less irritating in this novel. The novel does advance Maisie's personal story but focuses on it less or blends it better with the mystery she is trying to solve. I must admit, I'm even curious to see what Maisie's future holds. Is it possible that Jacqueline Winspear in Leaving Everything Most Loved has made me into a Maisie fan? It appears to be true.
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Maisie is in for big changes! I'm glad this series is evolving along with its main characters. I think Winspear is doing a good job listening to what Maisie is saying to her. Excited to see what adventures come!
I just adore Maisie Dobbs. I wish I were more like Maisie Dobbs. I wish the world was made up of people like Maisie Dobbs.
This book has a terribly Orientalist relationship to the victim that it is meant to care for. The Indian woman at the center is the victim and is entirely a plot device to forward the story of Maisie. Usha, the victim, is framed in classic Orientalist tropes of a healer, a girl more moved by passion than logic with her destiny locked to the will of the men — especially the white men — in her life.
Really liked this one. I like the open-endedness, I like Maisie as she comes to doubt herself and her ability to set the world to rights.
An Indian woman has been murdered in London. It happened several months ago, and it is only when the murdered woman's brother arrives from India that the investigation takes off. Soon there is another murder, and Maisie must find out how a woman so loved has come to die.
World War I is still having its effects, this time on the children of soldiers -- though that comes late in the story.
And in the end, Maisie has to let everything go, leave all she loves behind, to go on a journey to discover and perhaps strengthen herself. See a new culture, a different way of perceiving the world -- she sets off on a journey to India in the end.
An Indian woman has been murdered in London. It happened several months ago, and it is only when the murdered woman's brother arrives from India that the investigation takes off. Soon there is another murder, and Maisie must find out how a woman so loved has come to die.
World War I is still having its effects, this time on the children of soldiers -- though that comes late in the story.
And in the end, Maisie has to let everything go, leave all she loves behind, to go on a journey to discover and perhaps strengthen herself. See a new culture, a different way of perceiving the world -- she sets off on a journey to India in the end.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No