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Secrets of Sloane House
Secrets of Sloane House | Shelley Gray
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Against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family—a family who may guard the secret of her sister’s disappearance. Sloane House is among the most gilded mansions of Gilded Age Chicago. Rosalind Perry, the new housemaid, pours the morning coffee before the hard gaze of her mistress. “It’s simple, Rosalind,” she says. “I am Veronica Sloane, heiress to one of the country’s greatest fortunes. You are simply one in a long line of unsuitable maids.” Back on the farm in Wisconsin, Rosalind’s plan had seemed logical: Move to Chicago. Get hired on at Sloane House. Discover what transpired while her sister worked as a maid there—and follow the clues to why she disappeared. Now, as a live-in housemaid to the Sloanes, Rosalind realizes her plan had been woefully simple-minded. She was ignorant of the hard, hidden life of a servant in a big, prominent house; of the divide between the Sloane family and the people who served them; and most of all, she had never imagined so many people could live in such proximity and keep such dark secrets. Yet, while Sloane House is daunting, the streets of Chicago are downright dangerous. The World’s Fair has brought a new kind of crime to the city . . . and a lonely young woman is always at risk. But when Rosalind accepts the friendship of Reid Armstrong, the handsome young heir to a Chicago silver fortune, she becomes an accidental rival to Veronica Sloane. As Rosalind continues to disguise her kinship to the missing maid—and struggles to appease her jealous mistress—she probes the dark secrets of Sloane House and comes ever closer to uncovering her sister’s mysterious fate. A fate that everyone in the house seems to know . . . but which no one dares to name.
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drokka

Twenty-five chapters of mystery then BAM a couple 'come-to-Jesus' chapters. I don't mind religious characters, but the suddenness of it jars and feels less like character building and more like preaching. I don't generally dig on preachy things.

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drokka

This is an audiobook, and maybe it's just me but I feel the narrator is infantilizing the protagonist. There's being naïve, then there's sounding 12 years old. Maybe it's just me and my problems with some modern writers thinking they know how young women spoke to each other in the servants' quarters. Comes off a bit 'sorority'.

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Karenlovesbooks
Panpan

I almost bailed a few times, but decided to stick wth it, so I could find out what happened to the missing sister. I picked it up, since it was historical fiction. I didn't realize it was also "inspirational". Not my cup of tea.

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javadiva
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I'm waiting for a few holds that apparently many others are too...so I grabbed what was available. I am having a hard time caring about the characters. The conversations are not very believable. And not enough details about what the city was like during the fair. Or the fair itself.