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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
There are many literary styles worked into this delightful sequel to “The Gilded Hour”—650+ pages of unabashed chic-lit book candy, that just leaves me wanting more! Oh goody! It’s going to be a trilogy...Donati warns her readership that it takes her a long time to write one of her tomes, but that’s OK, I can wait!
Enjoyable, but not as good as The Guilded Hour. Could have used some editing to tighten it up a bit.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Excellent sequel to The Gilded Hour. This is an atmospheric historical narrative that skilfully combines feminist social issues with a murder mystery.
It's a timely story as well as the fundamentalist religious fanaticism around women and reproduction is recurring in the America of today.
It's a timely story as well as the fundamentalist religious fanaticism around women and reproduction is recurring in the America of today.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Infertility, Mental illness, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Abortion
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
(4.5) I would've given this sequel to [b:The Gilded Hour|24611868|The Gilded Hour|Sara Donati|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1425245254l/24611868._SY75_.jpg|44222986] five stars, except that it had a bit too many "newspaper clippings" and the side story with Elise diluted the main plot, in my opinion. Maybe she'll be given equal billing in the next book and that will make more sense? I just want more Anna and Sophie, personally, and there is more of the latter in this book than in the first of the series! The ongoing mystery from the The Gilded Hour is brought to a close and I like the element of suspense that the Detective Sargeants bring to this series. I look forward to reading the next one when it's ready!
I loved revisiting the 2nd book in the Waverly Place series except that the narrator is different and worse than the first book's was (especially her weird and jarring voicing of Oscar Maroney). It was also beyond irritating to listen to a bunch of newspaper clippings at the beginning and throughout the book, but I was able to skip the initial dump of them at the start because I remembered enough from reading it in print where the clippings were an effective way to jog our memory.
I can’t stop reading. I’ve been really drawn into this book and the one previous. I do hope there will be more.
I listened to the audiobook, and didn’t realize it was part of the series. Now I want to go back and read the first one.
How did an 8 million page book still manage to leave so many threads incomplete?