I was very compelled by this and also hated that I was compelled by it because I could tell that terrible things were going to happen to Frances and Lillian and I didn't know if they would make it through them. I'm not going to tell you if they do or not so you can experience the same feelings if yo...
I was so far into this book and wishing I could like the personality of the main character, Frances. Once a girl of spirit, beliefs and passion, she begins the book a dull, washed out spinster at twenty-seven, playing backgammon with her elderly mother, having let go of the one "true love" she felt ...
Sarah Waters sure can write a great story. She manages to combine many thematic ingredients class, gender, economic dependence, morality, suspense, and of course LESBIAN ROMANCE into a beautiful and delicious dish.
"They had no idea how decency, loyalty, courage, how it all shriveled away when one was frightened." So, days after finishing The Paying Guests I am still shaking my head in disbelief. Disbelief that a book can have the power to torment me and make me feel like it tied me to the rear bumper and dr...
5 Stars, Buy it and everything else Sarah Waters writes Self Purchase, Kindle. Pre-Ordered First Impression: Seems as lovely as all her other work. I really enjoy Sarah Waters work, especially her GLBT work. I wasn’t sure if this one was going to fall into that category but it does. So Maybe...
By Sarah Waters ASIN: B00INIQUOQISBNPublisher: RiverheadNarrator: Juliet StevensonLength: 21 hrs and 28 minsPublication Date: 09/16/2014 Format: AudioMy Rating: 3 Stars The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters latest novel is a complex historical fiction with twists of gripping psychological narrative of l...
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed as impoverished widow Mrs...
A nice start, but it became tedious and predictable after awhile. Nothing happened for so long, and then by the time things started to pick up, I'd already lost interest and become tired of the main characters.
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