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A review by tobyyy
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
4.0
Unread shelf project 2021: book 106.
Romance! Mystery! Drama! Grief! Loss! Hope! Love! All contained in this first volume of the Poldark series.
I ran across this series — funnily enough — from the photo of one of the Bookstagrammers I follow on Instagram. I saw a multitude of fat cream-colored books, zoomed in on the photo, and saw the titles. And summarily hunted them down and realized that they sounded interesting. They had *nothing* to do with the Bookstagrammer’s caption but oh well! That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Definitely a good start to the series, which is a good one for fans of epic historical family dramas. It is slow-paced and reminiscent in some ways of JRR Tolkien’s writing style (as I am rereading the LotR series now). That being said, they were written around the same time so it makes sense I suppose. I was fascinated by the fact that this first Poldark book was written in 1945. I’d never heard of this series or the related TV shows before finding the titles in that photo on IG. Isn’t that odd?
I enjoyed Graham’s writing, although he does use the dialect of the Cornish rural folk so sometimes you have to read the dialogue a bit slow in order to follow it fully. I’m invested in Ross and Demelza now, and curious of what is to come of Elizabeth and Francis. On to book 2 (eventually)!
Romance! Mystery! Drama! Grief! Loss! Hope! Love! All contained in this first volume of the Poldark series.
I ran across this series — funnily enough — from the photo of one of the Bookstagrammers I follow on Instagram. I saw a multitude of fat cream-colored books, zoomed in on the photo, and saw the titles. And summarily hunted them down and realized that they sounded interesting. They had *nothing* to do with the Bookstagrammer’s caption but oh well! That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Definitely a good start to the series, which is a good one for fans of epic historical family dramas. It is slow-paced and reminiscent in some ways of JRR Tolkien’s writing style (as I am rereading the LotR series now). That being said, they were written around the same time so it makes sense I suppose. I was fascinated by the fact that this first Poldark book was written in 1945. I’d never heard of this series or the related TV shows before finding the titles in that photo on IG. Isn’t that odd?
I enjoyed Graham’s writing, although he does use the dialect of the Cornish rural folk so sometimes you have to read the dialogue a bit slow in order to follow it fully. I’m invested in Ross and Demelza now, and curious of what is to come of Elizabeth and Francis. On to book 2 (eventually)!