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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
The Grand Tour: Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality by Patricia C. Wrede (2006)
If you like regencies and you like fantasies with comedy of manners mixed in, this is the book for you. But you must read Sorcery & Cecelia first.
3.5 stars would probably be more accurate, but this is a bit of lightweight fluff that I won't remember a week from now.
Still charming fluffy fun, with the two couples established by the end of book one now on a honeymoon tour in Europe. Magic, mystery, manners.
This book falls apart a little in concept once the girls are together and not writing each other letters, leaving the story to be told mostly through journal entries, etc. I couldn't get through the beginning because I found hearing two versions of the same event (even truncated) boring, and the girls became simpering and dull once they were in relationships. Their attitude towards their beaus was very "boys will be boys" and I just frankly don't have the time for that.
Took my some time to get into this one because it had been so long since I'd read "Sorcery and Cecilia", but once I got past that difficulty, I did quite enjoy it.
Finished this September 12th 2009. I found the beginning and the ending more interesting and exciting than the very long middle section of this book. And as in the first volume of the series, I had a hard time telling Kate and Cecy apart, and Thomas and James were practically the same character as well. Harumph.
