Frost Fair
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781602021563 (1602021562)
Publish date: November 24th 2008
Publisher: Linden Bay Romance, Llp
Pages no: 196
Edition language: English
Whatever else, this fic was what I needed right now. So what if the characters were all a tad melodramatic for my usually more postmodern sensibilities? It's something that I find seems to work in historicals for me, kind of, maybe, idk. Anyways, I just needed something a bit more straightforward, a...
2,5 starsFrost Fair was an agreeable read at the beginning.The setting of the story during what I learnt was the last River Thames Frost Fair in 1814 is a pleasant choice. The writing is elegant and precise, giving details without being too descriptive and depicts the atmosphere of these exceptional...
The book had well rounded characters, a story that kept me turning the pages and an iffy conclusion right to the end. Erastes mixed historic fact with the story to give the feeling of the times in which these men lived. The book wasn't bogged down with 'character overload' making it, for me, more en...
It's 1814, and London is freezing. The small printer's business Gideon Frost inherited from his father doesn't run too well, and there's a major debt to pay, so Gideon resorts to whoring himself in order to make enough money fast so he can keep the business. His fortune seems to favor him at last, b...
So, it is 1814 and Gideon Frost is almost down to his last sou. While publishing has been reasonably lurative in the past, bad times have beset fair Gideon and he is reduced to the occasional dabble in prositution to make ends meet. But, hark our erstwhile hero, Mr Joshua Redfern, arrives on the sce...
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