Raven's Bride
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429994248 (142999424X)
Publish date: February 15th 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Certainly not a bad book, but like the narrator describes on her death bed, it's a bit like someone's flipping the pages of a novel though her entire adult life. Every chapter is extremely repetitive. Poe sells a work, is happy. Poe has job, is miserable. Poe quits job, sells no more works, everyone...
In general, I'm all in favor of the recent trend of writing biographical novels of famous men from the point of view of the women in their life. This one, about Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by his young bride, is interesting for its subject matter, but is not the most successful entry into the genre th...
Revised Review:I love being on Goodreads and find it an absolutely fascinating place to be. One of the drawbacks to Goodreads, particularly in the area of historical fiction, is that one comes across, ummm, "blowhards" who come in and make accusations re: an author's work and, then, are condescendin...
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