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Leaving Everything Most Loved
by Jacqueline Winspear
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is probably the Maisie Dobbs novel that took me the longest to read. Each time I put it down I wanted to DNF. But I have come so far in this series that I wanted to give it a chance. This book felt like the last season of GOT. Maisie has a different personality than she has in past books, Billy is only used as a plot device to get Maisie out of a bad situation, and the whole thing felt like Winspear wrote only for her contract and doesn’t want to continue the series.
As far as the mystery goes, it’s a decent mystery and I did enjoy that aspect and it lives up to what you would have come to expect from Winspear. Of course, the meat of the story is about the characters themselves. Which I did not enjoy in this volume. Maisie suddenly became more radical, outspoken, and rude. Add in the excessive use of “Indian summer” and how we went from never hearing about Indian people within the community to Maisie being an expert and seeing them everywhere. The novel was frustrating where the internal conflict and relationships were concerned. I will be reading the next book, but if this is an example of the next “season” of Maisie, I will be discontinuing.
As far as the mystery goes, it’s a decent mystery and I did enjoy that aspect and it lives up to what you would have come to expect from Winspear. Of course, the meat of the story is about the characters themselves. Which I did not enjoy in this volume. Maisie suddenly became more radical, outspoken, and rude. Add in the excessive use of “Indian summer” and how we went from never hearing about Indian people within the community to Maisie being an expert and seeing them everywhere. The novel was frustrating where the internal conflict and relationships were concerned. I will be reading the next book, but if this is an example of the next “season” of Maisie, I will be discontinuing.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse