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A review by sally0yllas
Mrs England by Stacey Halls
3.0
This book was good, although I didn’t enjoy it as much as her previous two. The plot was interesting enough and the characters were again, very fleshed out and captivating, but I spent a lot of this book very frustrated - the main character, Ruby, is kept in the dark and/or very naive to the things happening around her, but I felt this could have been handled better. Too often Ruby said something like “it couldn’t have been what I thought it was” but without elaborating on what she’d thought something was, which didn’t give me the sense of mystery and intrigue I assume the author was aiming for and instead just left me feeling like I’d enjoy the story more if I knew what the hell Ruby was referring to.
As the story developed it became apparent that parts of Ruby’s past were relevant to her current circumstances but as these weren’t revealed until much later in the book I just spent a lot of time feeling quite detached from her and her story because I had no idea what she was on about.
Otherwise this was an enjoyable historical novel and Stacey Hall once again proves that she can write interesting stories inspired by different periods of social history and the way life was for those in a variety of different social classes.
As the story developed it became apparent that parts of Ruby’s past were relevant to her current circumstances but as these weren’t revealed until much later in the book I just spent a lot of time feeling quite detached from her and her story because I had no idea what she was on about.
Otherwise this was an enjoyable historical novel and Stacey Hall once again proves that she can write interesting stories inspired by different periods of social history and the way life was for those in a variety of different social classes.