by Jacqueline Winspear
After the last few novels and Masie having to make choices about her future and the author pulls the rug out from under her in the first 10 or so pages, I found it somewhat jarring and discomfiting. Maisie goes from Canada to India and sails back (via the Suez canal) to England but when the boat s...
Maisie just isn't the same without some of her supporting cast. The stripping down of the series' characters the last two books seems to be taking a little away from what I enjoyed so much about the series. Every terrible thing that could possibly happen has already happened. Well almost everything.
This is the first Maisie Dobbs book I've read, so I don't have anything to judge this against. I also didn't read any reviews of the book until after I'd finished the book. So I didn't have the same disappointments that longtime readers had. My reaction to the book was that I loved it and now want t...