Guys, I must confess that I was obsessed with magic shows as a kid. Now with all the exposing of how tricks are done, it's kinda worn off and mostly this obsession returns when it's Hugh Jackman performing the illusions. I'm not really all that familiar with Houdini's life, but the pictures I've see...
"I recognize in Dr. Finneas Bennett a snake-oil salesman of the highest caliber. Of course, it takes one to know one."I love a good historical fiction, especially one set in the Roaring Twenties. I still maintain that I was a flapper in a previous life. =) This particular time period was so rife ...
Review and others on my blog My Friends Are FictionActual rating 3.5The Story:Born of Illusion starts out with a very leisurely pace which allows the reader to soak in the time period and setting of the 1920's New York. It was a comfortable book to delve into, though I didn't feel like I couldn't p...
Born of Illusion is my kind of historical. It had a wonderful atmosphere, complete with a fabulous 1920s vibe, and featured a spitfire of a main character in Anna, who undergoes all the right kinds of character development, complete with making mistakes and growing as a person. Add in a complicated ...
Born of Illusion is about Anna Van Housen the daughter of Marguerite Van Housen, a famous medium, who has just moved to New York to begin performing. Anna is also possibly the illegitimate daughter of Houdini. The problem is Anna’s mother is not a real medium and Anna is. There are also mysterious s...
Read This Review & More Like It On Ageless Pages Reviews! 1920's New York? Jazz and magic? Prohibition and flappers? Speakeasies and Model T's? Houdini and secret societies? To say that I wanted to read Born of Illusion once I read the synopsis is a gross understatement. I needed to read it; it r...
I love historical fiction and was incredibly excited to read this book. I mean, 1920s New York? A girl who is supposed to be Houdini's illegitimate daughter? In the end, there were things I enjoyed about Born of Illusion, and other things that struck me as somewhat less than magical.My favorite par...
This book was a very pleasant surprise. My copy of this has been waiting a while, constantly put aside in favour of other historical fiction novels that appealed to me more - for example, [b:Out of The Easy|11178225|Out of The Easy|Ruta Sepetys|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1339784547s/11178225.jpg|1...
Born of Illusion is not The Diviners, but it's a lovely, fun and colourful book, strong in its own right.Like Libba Bray, Teri Brown took on a fascinating and not a very well known topic of magicians and mediums in New York in 1920s. However, while Bray concentrated on a bigger picture, describing a...
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