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Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters
3.0
This is a good if not a unremarkable story.
I generally enjoyed the plot and the characters. Susan, the main character, is not annoying. She is quite smart, even if a little naive. Jamie is fine too. Together they form a rather nice couple. They are not characters that I will remember, but they are all right.
The plot is ok too. There are several situations that could be avoided if the main characters showed a little more insight. Or they just turned to the police for help. But of course then there would be no base for this whole story. The story is a bit more violent and dark than I expected, but still nothing serious. The whole part that Jamie is similar to a member of the royal family (my bet is Prince Charles) is rather ridiculous. But I can bear it.
I was most surprised that this book was written in the mid-seventies. I had no such impression at all. The passage of time did not affect it even a bit. This whole situation could very well be happening nowadays.
It’s a good, nice read.
*Oh, I only noticed now that this author also wrote Crocodile on the Sandbank - a book that I read not so long ago and that I liked very much. More than this one for sure. But this explains my general feelings.
I generally enjoyed the plot and the characters. Susan, the main character, is not annoying. She is quite smart, even if a little naive. Jamie is fine too. Together they form a rather nice couple. They are not characters that I will remember, but they are all right.
The plot is ok too. There are several situations that could be avoided if the main characters showed a little more insight. Or they just turned to the police for help. But of course then there would be no base for this whole story. The story is a bit more violent and dark than I expected, but still nothing serious. The whole part that Jamie is similar to a member of the royal family (my bet is Prince Charles) is rather ridiculous. But I can bear it.
I was most surprised that this book was written in the mid-seventies. I had no such impression at all. The passage of time did not affect it even a bit. This whole situation could very well be happening nowadays.
It’s a good, nice read.
*Oh, I only noticed now that this author also wrote Crocodile on the Sandbank - a book that I read not so long ago and that I liked very much. More than this one for sure. But this explains my general feelings.