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mysterious
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
I did not like this book at all.
This is a dual time period story about an American teen attending a summer journalism program at Oxford (though this is barely referenced and comes to nothing) who meets a bunch of extremely stereotypical British people including her scholarship benefactor. The benefactor claims to have some information about the teen’s dead father but dies herself before she can reveal it. This leads to the teen somehow becoming trapped in the benefactor’s house reading a very shallow and annoying girl’s memoir of surviving the sinking of the Titanic, which is full of more ethnic stereotypes, stupid psychic powers and moustache-twirling revolutionaries.
The resolution of the Titanic story is frankly unbelievable and the resolution to the story in the present isn't much better. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
This is a dual time period story about an American teen attending a summer journalism program at Oxford (though this is barely referenced and comes to nothing) who meets a bunch of extremely stereotypical British people including her scholarship benefactor. The benefactor claims to have some information about the teen’s dead father but dies herself before she can reveal it. This leads to the teen somehow becoming trapped in the benefactor’s house reading a very shallow and annoying girl’s memoir of surviving the sinking of the Titanic, which is full of more ethnic stereotypes, stupid psychic powers and moustache-twirling revolutionaries.
The resolution of the Titanic story is frankly unbelievable and the resolution to the story in the present isn't much better. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.
Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Racism, Stalking, and Suicide
Minor: Bullying, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, and War
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