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A review by maplessence
Appleby's End by Michael Innes
4.0
4.5★
After whinging, whining & pleading for rereads on Goodreads in the much missed Feedback Group, I don't reread much, other than my beloved [a:Georgette Heyer|18067|Georgette Heyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336748892p2/18067.jpg]. I'm older now & there are still too many good books waiting for me out there.
But I think, one day, I might reread this one.
Right from the start this was a very different witty read with all the most confusing place names!
There are a couple more pages of this!
For me, this book, although intriguing doesn't quite sustain the clever pace of the start & because there is a I sense that Innes had fun writing this!
A Goodreads friend has told me it is fine to start from this book in the series, as the earlier Appleby books are either bloated (my least favourite fiction read) or weird. I don't always mind weird, so I might seek them out. But Innes's books are hard to find in my country in dead tree format, so I might just look for the later ones.
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After whinging, whining & pleading for rereads on Goodreads in the much missed Feedback Group, I don't reread much, other than my beloved [a:Georgette Heyer|18067|Georgette Heyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336748892p2/18067.jpg]. I'm older now & there are still too many good books waiting for me out there.
But I think, one day, I might reread this one.
Right from the start this was a very different witty read with all the most confusing place names!
"Yatter," said Mr Raven.
"I beg your pardon?"
"Yatter. A ghastly little place. Yatter, Abbot's Yatter and King's Yatter. Then we come to Drool...I think you said you hoped to change at Linger?
There are a couple more pages of this!
For me, this book, although intriguing doesn't quite sustain the clever pace of the start & because there is a
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romance & the author appears to have become fond of the whole Raven family, you just know they aren't going to turn out to be the villains!A Goodreads friend has told me it is fine to start from this book in the series, as the earlier Appleby books are either bloated (my least favourite fiction read) or weird. I don't always mind weird, so I might seek them out. But Innes's books are hard to find in my country in dead tree format, so I might just look for the later ones.
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