by Wilkie Collins
The Law and the Lady is first Collins's book that I didn't enjoy.I don't mind the not so well fleshed second characters and I'm ready to ignore all coincidences & lack of reason in characters but this book has not aged well. However, the main character, while is her time product, is surprisingly str...
bookshelves: winter20092010, victorian, fraudio, mystery-thriller, gothic, play-dramatisation, britain-scotland Read in December, 2009 Valeria Woodville tries to clear her husband of murdering his first wife. A sensational Gothic tale starring Abigail Docherty.Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 11:15am Th...
Another enjoyable mystery by Wilkie Collins. After reading several of his books I can say that his style of writing is easily read, his main characters well developed, and his stories full of suspense. What I haven't figured out yet is why it takes me so long to get through them! With all the positi...
It is so hard for me to decide what rating to give this book which I feel deserves more than 3* but not 4. I'm giving it 3 for now but might find myself yielding to temptation and giving the higher rating after all.I love the strength of the main character but found it hard to feel much empathy towa...
Just an ok book. It started right and grew progressively boring for me. I wonder why.... Valeria sounded so annoyingly confident, the kind of confidence the misguided have. The husband didn't sound as if he was deserved to be loved. The dynamic Dexter exhausted me with his emotion and imagination. ...
Valeria Woodville tries to clear her husband of murdering his first wife. A sensational Gothic tale starring Abigail Docherty.Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 11:15am Thursday 17th December 2009Duration:45 minutesAvailable until:12:02pm Thursday 24th December 2009Categories:Drama, Crime
Collins writes like low-rent Dickens crossed with Trollop. He loves creating quirky characters and writing satirically and judgementally about them. He is addicted to unnecessary hystrionics and suspense--an entire chapter will just be one character warning another of the SHOCKING news they are ab...
After reading and loving The Moonstone and The Lady in White I went through a relentless Wilike Collins phase and devoured everything he ever wrote. None of his other books quite measure up to the 2 favorites, but this one comes closer than most. There is something unique about this story of a wom...
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