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The American Heiress
by Daisy Goodwin
(This review can also be found on my blog! The link is on my profile)
Okay so I was expecting this book to be kind of like The Luxe but I couldn't have been more wrong. Not that that's a bad thing but it definitely wasn't as......... interesting. To be honest the story was a little lack luster for me and I sort of feel like the ending negated everything that had built up. Nonetheless, it was a good book but maybe not for a nineteen year old.
The story centers around the young heiress of a flour fortune, Cora Cash. She has pretty much everything she could ever ask for, all except a title. So, her mother decides to send her to London so that young Cora can marry into royalty. There's only one problem; she simply does not want to do anything that her mother wants her to do. She wants to run away with her friend Teddy and get married but Teddy is too afraid to commit to her and he says that he would rather go to Paris to be a painter then settle down. So, she does as her mother asks and goes to London where she meets a Duke, who has the ridiculous name of Ivo, and they rather quickly get married. Now, the rest of the book is just sort of cut and dry; it just goes through about three years of her life with him and how she has to learn how to act in the English court and deal with her mother-in-law, who wants to steal the spotlight, and her husband, who doesn't seem to really love her. But nothing ever really happens throughout the whole book. We know that something is going on with Ivo and we know that everyone just seems to be out to get her but we never really learn why, and in the end, when everything is revealed, nothing really big comes of it. I was not very satisfied with the ending at all but looking back on it I understand why it ended like that.
This is the kind of book for people that really love British society, Victorian life, and Downton Abbey, and while I love all those things this book just wasn't very compelling. Nevertheless, I did enjoy it and I am glad I read it, but unfortunately for me I can't give it higher than 3.
Okay so I was expecting this book to be kind of like The Luxe but I couldn't have been more wrong. Not that that's a bad thing but it definitely wasn't as......... interesting. To be honest the story was a little lack luster for me and I sort of feel like the ending negated everything that had built up. Nonetheless, it was a good book but maybe not for a nineteen year old.
The story centers around the young heiress of a flour fortune, Cora Cash. She has pretty much everything she could ever ask for, all except a title. So, her mother decides to send her to London so that young Cora can marry into royalty. There's only one problem; she simply does not want to do anything that her mother wants her to do. She wants to run away with her friend Teddy and get married but Teddy is too afraid to commit to her and he says that he would rather go to Paris to be a painter then settle down. So, she does as her mother asks and goes to London where she meets a Duke, who has the ridiculous name of Ivo, and they rather quickly get married. Now, the rest of the book is just sort of cut and dry; it just goes through about three years of her life with him and how she has to learn how to act in the English court and deal with her mother-in-law, who wants to steal the spotlight, and her husband, who doesn't seem to really love her. But nothing ever really happens throughout the whole book. We know that something is going on with Ivo and we know that everyone just seems to be out to get her but we never really learn why, and in the end, when everything is revealed, nothing really big comes of it. I was not very satisfied with the ending at all but looking back on it I understand why it ended like that.
This is the kind of book for people that really love British society, Victorian life, and Downton Abbey, and while I love all those things this book just wasn't very compelling. Nevertheless, I did enjoy it and I am glad I read it, but unfortunately for me I can't give it higher than 3.