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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
*De la misma a autora de Veronica Speedwel tenemos a Lady Julia Gray y esta es la razón por la cual me sentí conflictuada la mayor parte del libro, creí que me iba a encontrar a un personaje igual de audaz y valiente como Verónica pero no aquí tenemos una Lady Julia inocente y cegada del mundo que la rodeaba, eso me choqueo bastante, pero aquí señoras y señores entra la maravillosa pluma de Deanna Raybourn! esta mujer sabe crear personajes femeninos muy bien hechos, así como Verónica es toda una mujer empoderada a la que adoras por ello, aquí tenemos a una Julia inocente pero no por ello tonta, apenas el mundo empieza a verse tal cual como es ella sigue el hilo y evoluciona, es una evolución de personaje muy bien llevada, no de momento a otro sino ladrillo por ladrillo y al finalizar el libro ahí me tienes bien encantada con esta lectura y el personaje de Julia.
* El desarrollo del misterio no lo vi venir! y eso me encanto!!! que buena trama.
* El romance es lento y casi invisible pero a estas alturas ya me costumbre a que Deanna haga eso.
Conclusión
Es un recomendado, no solo por la trama si no por el personaje de Lady Julia.
* El desarrollo del misterio no lo vi venir! y eso me encanto!!! que buena trama.
* El romance es lento y casi invisible pero a estas alturas ya me costumbre a que Deanna haga eso.
Conclusión
Es un recomendado, no solo por la trama si no por el personaje de Lady Julia.
An entertaining and well written read that speeds up drastically in the later chapters. I enjoyed the depictions of this distinctly different family in Victorian times and the eccentricities within them all. The March family make for very engaging reading and all of the siblings, with the exception of the more conservatively raised oldest brother, are a delight to spend time with.
It's lightly written, oft covering dark themes with a gentle hand as well as a wry sense of humour. The Victorian expectations and how the March family buck against them and just about get away with it is done well. There's the constantly slightly edged awareness that at some point they are going to go too far and it will all end badly.
The murder plot is slow and almost teasing to begin with but it speeds up in the latter half of the novel and twists and turns with red herrings galore. I wasn't quite as enamoured with it as when I first read it near a decade ago, but the writing style and characters still kept me engaged. I was more aware of how slowly it was moving because I knew where it was going I would suggest.
I am still debating whether the imagery on each chapter page deliberately resembles the feminine organs... judging from others views on the feminism with this series I would anticipate the answer is yes.
It's lightly written, oft covering dark themes with a gentle hand as well as a wry sense of humour. The Victorian expectations and how the March family buck against them and just about get away with it is done well. There's the constantly slightly edged awareness that at some point they are going to go too far and it will all end badly.
The murder plot is slow and almost teasing to begin with but it speeds up in the latter half of the novel and twists and turns with red herrings galore. I wasn't quite as enamoured with it as when I first read it near a decade ago, but the writing style and characters still kept me engaged. I was more aware of how slowly it was moving because I knew where it was going I would suggest.
I am still debating whether the imagery on each chapter page deliberately resembles the feminine organs... judging from others views on the feminism with this series I would anticipate the answer is yes.
I absolutely LOVE Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series and I've been meaning to read her earlier work for a while now. This is the first I've read outside of that series and it was a pretty big disappointment. I feels like an old first draft to the Speedwell series; it is very similar but the characters have since been refined and are less petulant all around. I strongly recommend skipping this one and starting with A Curious Beginning.
To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate....
This beginning line is what hooked me the first time I read this novel. It has also created a reading binge of Deanna Raybourn's Lady Julia Grey Series in 2020. I was flipping through my library recalling how much I enjoyed the series. I opened the first page read that first line and now I am doing the same thing I did the first time I read her series in 2014, bingeing them until her first three books become one novel in my head.
This time around I am listening to the audiobooks to get another experience and I am finding I am enjoying this series more upon my second reading.
Silent in the Grave ★★★★
Silent in the Sanctuary ★★★★★
Silent on the Moor ★★★★★
This beginning line is what hooked me the first time I read this novel. It has also created a reading binge of Deanna Raybourn's Lady Julia Grey Series in 2020. I was flipping through my library recalling how much I enjoyed the series. I opened the first page read that first line and now I am doing the same thing I did the first time I read her series in 2014, bingeing them until her first three books become one novel in my head.
This time around I am listening to the audiobooks to get another experience and I am finding I am enjoying this series more upon my second reading.
Silent in the Grave ★★★★
Silent in the Sanctuary ★★★★★
Silent on the Moor ★★★★★
One of the best books I’ve read this year! Really looking forward to getting the next one from the library so I can enjoy more Julia and Brisbane!
I surprisingly enjoyed reading this book! I don't normally read this genre, but it was for a Goodreads book club, and I read it within a couple of days. I've already started the next book in the series, and I think I will continue reading books by this author. The book needed more sexytime, but it was an interesting story overall.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes