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A review by inkhearted
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book VI: The Long-Lost Home by Maryrose Wood
3.0
For all my mixed feelings about this series, it does have a happy and reasonably sayisfying conclusion--it just takes a very long time to get there.
All the various mysteries plaguing Penelope Lumley, her charges, and the Ashton Family get resolved in this final chapter of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, though it will take a good deal of international travel to get there. Penelope, stranded in Russia with a *truly* beastly family, finds a a way to escape her situation, and stumbled upon her past as she makes her way back home.
As mentioned in the last review, there aren't *really* that many surprises left, because it's gotten increasingly easier to read between the lines. What is a surprise is the unlikely redemption of Lady Constance and the fizzling out of the Big Bad in the series as he becomes more and more genuinely unhinged.
For readers looking for books about preternaturally clever children, secrets, and twistiness, I would recommend The Mysterious Benedict Society books or The Willoughbys as stronger follow ups.
Note: Maryrose Wood wrote a beautiful tribute in the Acknowledgments to the narrator of all but one of her Incorrigibles audiobooks, Katherine ("Katy") Kellgren (whom this last book is dedicated to). After doing a bit of a deep dive on this actress and prolific audiobook narrator, I checked out the audio for the first book in the series. If your preferences are for audiobooks, I've heard really good things about the ones for this series. Sadly, Kellgren passed away shortly before the audio was recorded so it is not her on this last one.
All the various mysteries plaguing Penelope Lumley, her charges, and the Ashton Family get resolved in this final chapter of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, though it will take a good deal of international travel to get there. Penelope, stranded in Russia with a *truly* beastly family, finds a a way to escape her situation, and stumbled upon her past as she makes her way back home.
As mentioned in the last review, there aren't *really* that many surprises left, because it's gotten increasingly easier to read between the lines. What is a surprise is the unlikely redemption of Lady Constance and the fizzling out of the Big Bad in the series as he becomes more and more genuinely unhinged.
For readers looking for books about preternaturally clever children, secrets, and twistiness, I would recommend The Mysterious Benedict Society books or The Willoughbys as stronger follow ups.
Note: Maryrose Wood wrote a beautiful tribute in the Acknowledgments to the narrator of all but one of her Incorrigibles audiobooks, Katherine ("Katy") Kellgren (whom this last book is dedicated to). After doing a bit of a deep dive on this actress and prolific audiobook narrator, I checked out the audio for the first book in the series. If your preferences are for audiobooks, I've heard really good things about the ones for this series. Sadly, Kellgren passed away shortly before the audio was recorded so it is not her on this last one.