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livres_de_bloss 's review for:
The American Heiress
by Daisy Goodwin
The story itself may have had potential but the vacuous Cora and the host of other unlikeable characters (with the one exception of Teddy) ruined this for me.
Firstly, as above, the characters were terrible. Cora was petulant and spoiled; what made her especially hard to take was that she didn’t show any maturity or growth as the book concluded. We went all that way for nothing.
The stereotypes were silly: Americans were shallow, arrogant and brash and English were nasty, conniving, and manipulative.
Another upset was people addressing each other as “Duke” or “Duchess”.... did the author do any research at all? Don’t get me started on Cora whinging about the Butler because he was upset she asked him to build the fire! Like FFS that’s the job of a scullery maid! It’s beneath the Butler’s dignity to be asked to do this and she’s a total cow for making such an egregious error and then blaming him for it!
I felt like if I’d been required to take a shot every single time they mentioned the word ‘American(s)’ I would have died of alcohol poisoning somewhere in the first one third of the book. It was overdone to the point of annoying. They’re American, we get it.
For a long book, nothing really happens. There is a lot of filler and what does happen is fairly predictable. The ending was flat and the book rather just fizzled out. It was a cop-out ending for Cora and Bertha and really disappointing. I think Teddy dodged a bullet though and I hope he finds happiness away from these horrible people.
Firstly, as above, the characters were terrible. Cora was petulant and spoiled; what made her especially hard to take was that she didn’t show any maturity or growth as the book concluded. We went all that way for nothing.
The stereotypes were silly: Americans were shallow, arrogant and brash and English were nasty, conniving, and manipulative.
Another upset was people addressing each other as “Duke” or “Duchess”.... did the author do any research at all? Don’t get me started on Cora whinging about the Butler because he was upset she asked him to build the fire! Like FFS that’s the job of a scullery maid! It’s beneath the Butler’s dignity to be asked to do this and she’s a total cow for making such an egregious error and then blaming him for it!
I felt like if I’d been required to take a shot every single time they mentioned the word ‘American(s)’ I would have died of alcohol poisoning somewhere in the first one third of the book. It was overdone to the point of annoying. They’re American, we get it.
For a long book, nothing really happens. There is a lot of filler and what does happen is fairly predictable. The ending was flat and the book rather just fizzled out. It was a cop-out ending for Cora and Bertha and really disappointing. I think Teddy dodged a bullet though and I hope he finds happiness away from these horrible people.