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maplessence's review against another edition
3.0
I belong to the Reading the Detectives Group. Another member (thanks Abbey!) says this genre was very popular in the early 1900's. It was called Young Ladies novels & it was an early form of YA. Good to know. I felt horribly like I'd accidentally stepped into an Enid Blyton children's novel (& I'm not a Blyton fan!)
Things improved after Our Hero Peter rescued his adopted sister Rose-Ellen from an orphanage (although the way Rose-Ellen called him Peter De-ah Every Single Time she spoke to him totally got on my last nerve. But this remained a confused & confusing story about various people's struggle to possess the Annam Jewel.
Good enough to finish, bad enough that I don't want to read any non Miss Silver Wentworth's for a while.
An aside - I really love the covers Dean St Press are giving their reprints. Awesome.
Things improved after Our Hero Peter rescued his adopted sister Rose-Ellen from an orphanage (although the way Rose-Ellen called him Peter De-ah Every Single Time she spoke to him totally got on my last nerve. But this remained a confused & confusing story about various people's struggle to possess the Annam Jewel.
Good enough to finish, bad enough that I don't want to read any non Miss Silver Wentworth's for a while.
An aside - I really love the covers Dean St Press are giving their reprints. Awesome.
northerly_heart_reads's review
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
knyvern's review
2.0
Not really a mystery more of an adventure/romance story. Entertaining but rather old fashioned. Kind of sappy.
howjessicareads's review against another edition
2.0
Eh, this was surprisingly weak for a Wentworth novel. I much prefer her Miss Maud Silver series.
kjcharles's review against another edition
This one was fantastic. It's absolutely top-hole spiffing Blyton-grown-up pulp nonsense with a stolen Mystical Eastern Jewel of the most eye-rolling kind, plus a rather delightful hero and heroine who grow up from unprepossessing children into a cracking pair of sensible protagonists with jolly decent principles carrying them through. There's lots of tension, some nice family byplay, a good scary villain and a better weaksauce villainess driven by selfishness and cowardice. This is the sort of wildly enjoyable tosh I come to 1920s pulp for. Delighted Dean Street Press are bringing these back to life
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