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A review by adventureinlit
Lying With Lions by Annabel Fielding
4.0
I'm still not entirely sure how I feel overall about this book. It was not what I expected but I did enjoy it a lot. Set in Edwardian England a young woman is hired to an estate to be their archivist and catalog the family history. But she quickly embeds herself into the daily life of the house and works her way all the way up to be the secretary for the lady of the house.
This book had a very strange feel to it all the way through. You could tell everyone was playing a role, their expected role, but there was so much more beneath all of their actions and intentions. Duplicity as I would call it. It was captivating in that way that I never really felt like I knew what someone was intending and where they were going with something.
Very well written and enjoyable, but kind of a mystery historical fiction in my opinion because there was a lot of background information that keeps bubbling to the surface threating to take the family down and you feel like you're just waiting for that other shoe to drop. A great read for fans of history and this time period!
This book had a very strange feel to it all the way through. You could tell everyone was playing a role, their expected role, but there was so much more beneath all of their actions and intentions. Duplicity as I would call it. It was captivating in that way that I never really felt like I knew what someone was intending and where they were going with something.
Very well written and enjoyable, but kind of a mystery historical fiction in my opinion because there was a lot of background information that keeps bubbling to the surface threating to take the family down and you feel like you're just waiting for that other shoe to drop. A great read for fans of history and this time period!