I'm done. Done with the book and done with Stewart. Her kind of romantic suspense really does not work for me on either romance side or the suspense side of things. Having read two of her books, I am left with a feeling that her stories are overly contrived, full of snobbery, looking down on pe...
Does anyone else write like Mary Stewart? Because if there is another Mary Stewart out there, I want to find her. Her books are the perfect combination of romance and suspense, set in the most beautiful places. I really enjoy the fact that they are contemporaries for the time that they were written....
I´m not sure why I like Mary Stewart´s books as much as I do, but it must have something to do with the way I feel when reading one of her books: [Source] Yes, she´s taking the reader on an adventure. And I don´t care how formulaic, unrealistic and farfetched her stories are and I can´t even g...
It took awhile, but I've come to a book that my mom and I don't necessarily agree on. She remembers this book fondly, while I have more ambivalent feelings about it. I was less than 8 pages in before I was ready to chuck it all and go to Corfu; Stewart's creation of the setting was downright se...
This novel was written 50 years ago, but with one exception, it reads as fresh now as it did then. The story is Stewart’s classic romantic suspense. There is a love interest and danger, a villain and Shakespeare, a plucky heroine and a bevy of charming male sidekicks. Everything unfolds on the pasto...
"Here was I, Lucy Waring, being asked into the water for a game." This Rough Magic follows the usual Mary Stewart formula - exotic setting (Corfu), heroine in peril, hero who doesn't seem like a hero at first and of course a rocking good mystery to be solved. "The body was lying half in, half out, o...
I did also enjoy this one, set on Capri. I had never in my life heard that Capri might be the inspiration for the island in The Tempest, though. Everyone I’ve ever known about has thought it was the New World. However, that may be a more modern interpretation. [Feb 2012]
Mary Stewart is one of my favorite-but-forgotten-on-the-shelf authors. But even so, I had trouble with This Rough Magic. Maybe it's because I have never read The Tempest, but I found this novel really neither captured nor held my interest the way Ms. Stewart's other books have. It was a good read...
3.5 starsI enjoyed this book a lot, but it's been awhile since I've read Mary Stewart, and I'm just sort of getting back to reading some of her books. So reading this book (maybe again, I'm not sure), I found myself caught up in the details, but not really "mystified" by anything. I suppose that's t...
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