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Gentleman Jim
by Mimi Matthews
This book opens with the quote: All human wisdom is summed up in these two words, —‘Wait and hope.’ Alexandre Dumas.
This is a loosely based re-telling of The Count of Monte Cristo, but in the Regency era. It was so beautifully done that I could not put the book down and I read it basically in one sitting!
Maggie and Nicholas grew up together as children--inseparable best friends. Due to circumstances out of their control, they are separated.
Fast forward ten years later, Maggie believes Nicholas to be dead. She is coming out of mourning for her father and goes to London for the season with her friend, Jane. She is introduced to a Lord John St. Clair, a cold and distant aristocrat from the Continent, who is a doppleganger of her friend, Nicholas. Because she is also suffering from a long bout of influenza, she believes she is seeing things. Enter many plot twists and turns, where both characters are caught up in a mystery of revenge and romance, and the revelation of Gentleman Jim.
Ms. Matthews never fails to fully immerse the reader into the era of her novels, and this one did not disappoint! Five stars.
This is a loosely based re-telling of The Count of Monte Cristo, but in the Regency era. It was so beautifully done that I could not put the book down and I read it basically in one sitting!
Maggie and Nicholas grew up together as children--inseparable best friends. Due to circumstances out of their control, they are separated.
Fast forward ten years later, Maggie believes Nicholas to be dead. She is coming out of mourning for her father and goes to London for the season with her friend, Jane. She is introduced to a Lord John St. Clair, a cold and distant aristocrat from the Continent, who is a doppleganger of her friend, Nicholas. Because she is also suffering from a long bout of influenza, she believes she is seeing things. Enter many plot twists and turns, where both characters are caught up in a mystery of revenge and romance, and the revelation of Gentleman Jim.
Ms. Matthews never fails to fully immerse the reader into the era of her novels, and this one did not disappoint! Five stars.