Book: The Tea Rose Author: Jennifer Donnelly Genre: Fiction/19th Century/Romance Summary: East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes...
East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker...
From the lowliest of London's slums; from New York's poor Irish to its richest of rich; and back to London's streets but walking on the richer side of town this time. Fiona and Joe have to fight for everything they get and more, time and time again. They win some and they lose some, but what they ne...
A very readable historical romance that spans several years and some people with ambition. Both Joe and Fiona are interested in being successful and plan to open their own shop with savings but a series of pitfalls has her in New York and him in London. Through adventure and hardship they prevai...
When I first started reading this book, I thought "whew...over 500 pages. What kind of story are they trying to tell me? Is it going to be stuffed with description upon description of everything the main charactors come in contact with?" After finishing it, I could have read another 100 pages of t...
This was one of those books I had to push myself through. It's not a bad read, as a matter of fact I think it's very good. The writing is wonderful and I absolutely loved the setting. There is all kinds of drama going on and only the first 150 pages were a little slow. I also thought the characters ...
I'm going to start off with this - I found this book to be hilarious and I'm not sure why. It wasn't that it was hilariously bad - the writing is actually pretty good, and while there's a metric ton of coincidence and things just HAPPENING to work out, the absurdity in the plot never moved from ridi...
The Tea Rose was wildly melodramatic, far too reliant on Deus Ex Machina, and overstuffed with too many points of view; it was also a terrific ride, full of incredibly vivid places, and an absorbing read. I would have loved to give this book five stars for the time and places Donnelly evoked. East ...
In the East End of Victorian London, Fiona Finnegan and Joe Bristow share their hopes of getting out of the slums and of someday marrying each other. But when Fiona's father, the breadwinner, dies after a suspicious accident in the tea warehouse, things go downhill. After Fiona overhears the truth, ...
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