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The Lions of Fifth Avenue
by Fiona Davis
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue has been on my radar for a long time, and I recently read The Magnolia Palace by #FionaDavis and enjoyed it so much I knew I had to move this book higher on my TBR pile. It was worth reading, although it wasn’t as fantastic as I’d hoped.
Normally, I like dual timelines if they’re done well, and for the most part, I find that the case with The Lions of Fifth Avenue. The 1914 storyline was well-researched and portrayed what it must have been like to be a feminist in a time when women were struggling to earn the right to vote. I really enjoyed the portrayal of Laura Lyons and her ambitions to make something of herself beyond wife and mother. I felt her pain when she was rejected by the Columbia School of Journalism over her thesis, simply because she expressed her opinion, while male students could do so without repercussions.
There’s a mystery in both timelines involving rare books going missing from New York Public Library, which is the setting for both timelines. The mystery of what happened to the books kept me reading, even though I thought the 1993 timeline was rather weak compared to the 1914 one. The solution to the mysteries of the missing books was a little predictable, but still enjoyable to read.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue has been on my radar for a long time, and I recently read The Magnolia Palace by #FionaDavis and enjoyed it so much I knew I had to move this book higher on my TBR pile. It was worth reading, although it wasn’t as fantastic as I’d hoped.
Normally, I like dual timelines if they’re done well, and for the most part, I find that the case with The Lions of Fifth Avenue. The 1914 storyline was well-researched and portrayed what it must have been like to be a feminist in a time when women were struggling to earn the right to vote. I really enjoyed the portrayal of Laura Lyons and her ambitions to make something of herself beyond wife and mother. I felt her pain when she was rejected by the Columbia School of Journalism over her thesis, simply because she expressed her opinion, while male students could do so without repercussions.
There’s a mystery in both timelines involving rare books going missing from New York Public Library, which is the setting for both timelines. The mystery of what happened to the books kept me reading, even though I thought the 1993 timeline was rather weak compared to the 1914 one. The solution to the mysteries of the missing books was a little predictable, but still enjoyable to read.