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A review by onetrooluff
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
3.0
I've had this book since at least 2008 (I entered it in LibraryThing in 2008). Fiiiinally got around to reading it.
It was ok. The premise is promising - English spies working to counteract Napoleon - but over time I got a bit annoyed by the main character. There are effusive descriptions about what the main love interest thinks of her body and and the love scenes are pretty generic.
Once in a while a word would get overused to the point where it stuck out to me (like a paragraph that used the word "room" 4 or 5 times) or the dialogue would seem entirely too modern (particularly in the case of Selwick's family, the Uppingtons).
The plot also just fell into place at the end, and the framing narrative about the grad student cut off very abruptly. It looks like book 2 picks up directly where book 1 left off. I've owned books 2 and 3 for many years as well and I'll probably give them a try, but I think I'll pick up something else first.
It was ok. The premise is promising - English spies working to counteract Napoleon - but over time I got a bit annoyed by the main character. There are effusive descriptions about what the main love interest thinks of her body and and the love scenes are pretty generic.
Once in a while a word would get overused to the point where it stuck out to me (like a paragraph that used the word "room" 4 or 5 times) or the dialogue would seem entirely too modern (particularly in the case of Selwick's family, the Uppingtons).
The plot also just fell into place at the end, and the framing narrative about the grad student cut off very abruptly. It looks like book 2 picks up directly where book 1 left off. I've owned books 2 and 3 for many years as well and I'll probably give them a try, but I think I'll pick up something else first.