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The Phoenix Crown by Janie Chang, Kate Quinn
4.0
Book Review: The Phoenix Crown
Stars: 4 x 5
Authors: Kate Quine @katequinn5975 Janie Chang @janiechang33
Publisher: William Morrow Books. @williammorrowbooks
This is a historical fiction that starts in San Francisco just before the earthquake of 1908. That earthquake devastated the San Francisco Bay Area and many people went missing.
Just before the earthquake, Gemma garland a travels to S.F. to meet up with her best friend Nellie Doyal. Gemma is an Opera Singer and Nellie is a painter.
Alice works at the California Academy of Science. She is botanist . Suling lives in Chinatown her uncle arrange for her to marry a much old man who happens to be a doctor. These ladies all live in the same boarding house and the all end up knowing Henry Thornton. Henry Thornton is just pure evil and what he puts these ladies through is horrible as he brings all of them into his web of deceit. Henry is rich and charming and these ladies have no way to escape him. Henry has a collection of significant amount of artifacts and relilcs. One of these is called “the Phoenix Crown”. This particular relic is from Beijing’s Summer Palace. After a bit the girls start to realize that the way Henry does things and the motives he has are not good.
Henry deals with bad people and sometimes things do not go as planned. The police have suspicions about what Henry has been doing. The earthquake occurs and San Francisco is sent in chaos. This is the perfect time for Henry to escape and take the “Phoenix Crown” with him. After thing settle down a bit and recovery is slowly occurring, the ladies are determined to find a way to expose all that Henry had done. As time passes by about 5 years later the ladies find out the ”Phoenix Crown” is to worn at a costume ball in Versailles. They know the if the crown will be there then so will Henry. The ladies plot and plan and head to Versailles. Will they get their revenge or will Henry win out again?
What wonderful story of these women. It shows strength and diversity and how they will do what ever it takes to take down an evil man.
#bookstagram #thephoenixcrown #sanfrancisco #versailles
Stars: 4 x 5
Authors: Kate Quine @katequinn5975 Janie Chang @janiechang33
Publisher: William Morrow Books. @williammorrowbooks
This is a historical fiction that starts in San Francisco just before the earthquake of 1908. That earthquake devastated the San Francisco Bay Area and many people went missing.
Just before the earthquake, Gemma garland a travels to S.F. to meet up with her best friend Nellie Doyal. Gemma is an Opera Singer and Nellie is a painter.
Alice works at the California Academy of Science. She is botanist . Suling lives in Chinatown her uncle arrange for her to marry a much old man who happens to be a doctor. These ladies all live in the same boarding house and the all end up knowing Henry Thornton. Henry Thornton is just pure evil and what he puts these ladies through is horrible as he brings all of them into his web of deceit. Henry is rich and charming and these ladies have no way to escape him. Henry has a collection of significant amount of artifacts and relilcs. One of these is called “the Phoenix Crown”. This particular relic is from Beijing’s Summer Palace. After a bit the girls start to realize that the way Henry does things and the motives he has are not good.
Henry deals with bad people and sometimes things do not go as planned. The police have suspicions about what Henry has been doing. The earthquake occurs and San Francisco is sent in chaos. This is the perfect time for Henry to escape and take the “Phoenix Crown” with him. After thing settle down a bit and recovery is slowly occurring, the ladies are determined to find a way to expose all that Henry had done. As time passes by about 5 years later the ladies find out the ”Phoenix Crown” is to worn at a costume ball in Versailles. They know the if the crown will be there then so will Henry. The ladies plot and plan and head to Versailles. Will they get their revenge or will Henry win out again?
What wonderful story of these women. It shows strength and diversity and how they will do what ever it takes to take down an evil man.
#bookstagram #thephoenixcrown #sanfrancisco #versailles