Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it was the disappointment of the last book, maybe the potato finally got digested, whatever it was I quite enjoyed this. Unlike the heroine I have a bit of familiarity with gothic conventions, so there weren't a lot of surprises, not that I expected any. But now I would l...
I picked this up at a local church book sale over the weekend on a whim - I'd read and enjoyed one other Victoria Holt book, was interested in reading more, and the book synopsis sounded good. It sounded, in fact, similar to a favorite Phyllis A. Whitney book Window on the Square. Indeed, the fir...
This was a great book. At times it was a bit slow, which was the only reason why I gave it 4.5 stars. If the flow had been improved it would have been a five star book. The main character Martha (Marty) Leigh comes to Mount Mellyn after not managing to secure a proposal. She is going to the governes...
This happen to be one of those books with great writing that pulls one in, but not enough substance to truly make it shine. For a Gothic romance it had the spooky house, strange happenings and the broody hero. That was about it. Most of the events were pretty much everyday things, with a few clue...
2.5 Stars This happen to be one of those books with great writing that pulls one in, but not enough substance to truly make it shine. For a Gothic romance it had the spooky house, strange happenings and the broody hero. That was about it. Most of the events were pretty much everyday things, with ...
There is basically a straight line from Jane Eyre to Rebecca by du Maurier, to Victoria Holt. When I was just a girl, it was the 1970's, a time of great change. The first wave of feminism - concerned with legal/structural barriers to inequality like suffrage and property rights - had largely ende...
I almost want to give it that third star, but the melodrama didn't really start until three quarters of the way through. Before the fun stuff was a bunch of occasional musing on Martha's part about Alice, and no real searching. And I have no idea why Connan was such a catch. He was a jerk, Martha di...
Rating Clarification: 2.5 stars.Rather 'meh' romance that neither worked as a Gothic romance nor as romantic suspense. Martha, the heroine wasn't all that likeable either. Apparently this was Holt's first foray into the Gothic genre and it showed.Funny, I like Holt as Jean Plaidy but while this wa...
Victoria Holt reminds me of high school, where I first found friends who had the same love for reading and writing that I did. I remember one of my friends having a fondness for Holt novels. I just knew they were historical fiction; I wasn't really into that at the time, so I didn't explore any furt...
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