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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
It was entertaining and easy to read, but it had a disappointing ending.
Well written, but could have been half the length. I found myself skimming which hardly ever happens. And really. The last name of your super wealthy character is Cash. Really. But her family were millers. Wouldn’t you think that their last name would be.....Miller.......
Not super creative and can bore you to tears. The ending was quick and neat and nothing surprising. Although I was a little surprised. With as much as she dragged this out I was expecting something a little more dramatic for all the time and effort put in.
Not super creative and can bore you to tears. The ending was quick and neat and nothing surprising. Although I was a little surprised. With as much as she dragged this out I was expecting something a little more dramatic for all the time and effort put in.
This book was Downton Abbey meets Jane Austen and completely enjoyable. My one disappointment with it was that very few of the characters were fully developed, but in a way that made me think she was trying to write more in that 1800s style where the characters were more closed, more distant. I get what the author was going for in this case but it made it a bit harder to feel badly for a spoiled, beautiful heiress when you can’t get inside her head.
Still a very good read, and much less “fluffy” than I thought it would be. A great view into the privileged world of the time that had an authentic voice.
Still a very good read, and much less “fluffy” than I thought it would be. A great view into the privileged world of the time that had an authentic voice.
Very Downton Abbey/Jane Eyre (although not as gothic as the latter).
Is it terrible that I didn't really care about the characters at all? Or that the most interesting parts of the book were the trendy fashions of the period, the social intricacies, and the social mores? I feel like an appropriate subtitle for this book would be "[b:Much Ado About Nothing|12957|Much Ado About Nothing|William Shakespeare|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327885569s/12957.jpg|2080738]", like Shakespeare's play (except I bet matters of substance actually happened in his play).
I don't understand how people can like this book or why it has such a high rating.
I don't understand how people can like this book or why it has such a high rating.
Cora is a New York socialite and her mother wants her to have a title. She goes to Europe and does marry a duke. It is not the fairy tale she expects, it is a intertwined with drama from both sides of the world. Cora learns a lot about herself as a woman.
A $24, 465 page fat load of nothing. Slightly better than books that have no plot line, The American Heiress was all the more frustrating because there was zero story crafting with all tell no show. Lost count of how many time-period references were smushed in, as if the author was trying to use every page of her 1890s pre-book research notes. The only redeeming factor (and the begrudging 2-star earner) was the relative A-grade writing. Again, writing. Not storytelling.
Cora Cash, an absurdly rich (a fact made overbearingly clear) "spoilt" American heiress goes to England to secure a husband, which she does with hardly a blink of an eye. Cue the page long descriptions of English fashion, 9 course meals, and the outdated upholstery. Hinted on the back page, there's supposed to be some drama amongst the aristocracy, but that drama comes to another fat load of nothing with no tense confrontations, no eye-widening scenes, or even satisfying results.
All three romances fall obnoxiously flat with eloquent confessions of love that come out of nowhere and subsequently go nowhere. I paused reading at 200 pages, and picked it up after convincing myself that it would get better. Then it did get better as things began stewing, then the pot boiled and the stew runneth over, then there was a mad dash to clean up the boiling stew before it destroyed everything it touched, and then OH MY GOSH guys don't worry, the stew is actually lukewarm water.
To be fair, the book is quite an accomplishment for the author, and better than I could have written to be sure, but as a reader with no attachment with the author evaluating the entertainment value, it was a sorry slog.
Cora Cash, an absurdly rich (a fact made overbearingly clear) "spoilt" American heiress goes to England to secure a husband, which she does with hardly a blink of an eye. Cue the page long descriptions of English fashion, 9 course meals, and the outdated upholstery. Hinted on the back page, there's supposed to be some drama amongst the aristocracy, but that drama comes to another fat load of nothing with no tense confrontations, no eye-widening scenes, or even satisfying results.
All three romances fall obnoxiously flat with eloquent confessions of love that come out of nowhere and subsequently go nowhere. I paused reading at 200 pages, and picked it up after convincing myself that it would get better. Then it did get better as things began stewing, then the pot boiled and the stew runneth over, then there was a mad dash to clean up the boiling stew before it destroyed everything it touched, and then OH MY GOSH guys don't worry, the stew is actually lukewarm water.
To be fair, the book is quite an accomplishment for the author, and better than I could have written to be sure, but as a reader with no attachment with the author evaluating the entertainment value, it was a sorry slog.