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Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Tipping the Velvet
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3.75 20
Format: kindle
ISBN: 9780748129324
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
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It's a Books World
It's a Books World rated it
4.5 Review: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Goodreads summary: This delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. W...
Cheri's Book Blog
Cheri's Book Blog rated it
4.0 The end makes it all worthwhile.
Sometimes I get the urge to revisit Nancy and Florence. Every re-read is the same: I dread the middle portion of the book but enjoy the first part and love the final part enough to keep going. I don't know why I can't just give myself permission to skip to the parts I want, but I can't.
Book it Chewie
Book it Chewie rated it
4.0
Wow. Okay. This book was a hell of a roller-coaster for me. It starts out pretty much exactly how I expected. Something sweet, something innocent and naive, before falling down a really long flight of Sin Stairs, very quickly. I'm not unaccustomed to books leaving me reeling after I'd finished rea...
Jemology
Jemology rated it
5.0 Tipping the Velvet
A friend once told me she doesn't like historical lesfic because the sex is so underwhelming and I agree. Until I read this book. ;) An amazon reviewer calls it 'Victorian porn'--sounds like an oxymoron, doesnt it? Unabashed eroticism in a period of prudishness and high morality. In the context of...
Cheri's Book Blog
Cheri's Book Blog rated it
4.0 Tipping the Velvet
Doing a re-listen. I still very much enjoy this book. Even though Nancy is mostly super selfish and naive through nearly all of it. Florence makes up for it all.
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