I'm getting to the point where I'm beginning to revisit "Miss Silver" books because I've read almost all the books in the series at least once. (There are only some five or so books left that I've yet to read for the first time.) So I figured, I might just as well start my rereads with the very fi...
Well, this was enjoyable. As in some of Wentworth's other books, the mystery wasn't much to write home about (spoiler tags nevertheless, because at least one participant of the buddy read is still reading the book) -- [spoiler] the principal villains are known pretty much from the word "go", as i...
A day late (though hopefully not a dollar short), here's my "second bingo week" summary; and it's a summary of a much better week than the first one turned out to be. (So, yey!) For one thing this is due to the books, all of which were either outright winners or at least enjoyable on some level or...
(More than The Alington Inheritance, that is.) -- Still a bit too much of a whiny heroine, but at least we're firmly back in true and trusted Maudie territory. And it has to be said, while the victim is no Mrs. Boynton (cf. Agatha Christie, Appointment With Death), by the time she finally meets her...
... don't go anywhere near this one. Whiny, immature, TSTL special snowflake heroine. Insta-love. Completely implausible, "fortuitous" (*major headdesk moment*) first encounter between hero and heroine. Weak plotline that is further weakened by an "inverse mystery" structure -- it certainly doe...
Dick Francis: Field of Thirteen I've owned this collection of short stories since forever and decided our Melbourne Cup Day book task was the perfect occation so pull it out and finally read it. Candidly, I'm not sure why Dick Francis didn't write more short stories: both his style of writing and h...
... lined up in order of preference. I admittedly have so far only read two other Miss Silver books besides these four -- Grey Mask and The Chinese Shawl, respectively --, but based on the books listed above, my appreciation of the series is certainly increasing. Like Georgette Heyer's mysteries ...
ARRGGH!!! Well, actually I had been warned that there's a bit of a cliffhanger end, and the author has passed on, with this the last completed book in the series, so ARRGGHH!!! Meanwhile, interesting to see the start of Joanna's marriage, having seen the end of it in Lionheart back in January. Als...
So sad to know there is only one more of this series to read.
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