Incontro a sorpresa
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788873391135 (8873391133)
Publish date: May 2006
Publisher: Sperling & Kupfer
Pages no: 297
Edition language: Italian
Really quite a lot of fun, with plenty of snark and sass amid all the spying and mystery shrouding the murders, secret entrances, and other sinister incidents, events, and characters.It had a lot of flaws, no doubt. The worst one being, for me, the failed "romance". Ned and Elinor barely interact at...
Despite the in-story death necessary for the status of widowhood and underlying plot of mysterious treason and breached national security in a time of war, The Reluctant Widow is one of Georgette Heyer's more lighthearted stories.Elinor Rochdale's life first changed when her father took his own life...
A formula that seems to have been borrowed frequently. Woman down on her luck gets into the wrong carriage and instead of being a governess is married and widowed within a few hours. She also finds herself embroiled in some shady goings on with spies and secret passages and trying to save a family...
A formula that seems to have been borrowed frequently. Woman down on her luck gets into the wrong carriage and instead of being a governess is married and widowed within a few hours. She also finds herself embroiled in some shady goings on with spies and secret passages and trying to save a family n...
I usually love Georgette Heyer, but this one fell flat. It started out pretty good but Elinor just isn't the kind of heroine I like, and certainly not one I expect from Heyer. I couldn't summon up too much of an interest in the resolution nor in the romance aspect. Heyer has done much, much better.
12 years ago
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