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Who wouldn‘t travel over 500 miles to propose to a penpal they‘ve never met?
The two main characters here are in turn so open and so lovely and so dense it gets a little bogged down - both in plot and in the continual am-I-good-enoughs, but they kept winning me over regardless.
Not as good as the first in this series, but that being said, I still really enjoyed this fun, spicy Regency romance/spy caper, and would recommend it!
pickLoved this story. Human connection through water. Told through 3 perspectives, set on the banks of the River Thames and the Tigris in 2014, 2018 and 1840 (and a bit beyond). My favorite character was King Arthur of the Sewers and Slums. Not one I‘ll soon forget!
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pickThis is lovely and I hope she writes more books like this.
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pickGosh this is a quite remarkable read. It contains some things that I don‘t like - age differences in relationships inc a child bride (of its time but still not what I want to read about) and an almost distant story telling with very abrupt changes in main character and focus. It was a spiralling family saga - at its heart about love for each other and love for home even as both things change and evolve. The love for the land comes clear ⬇️
pickGosh, what a read and in so few pages. This is the first I've read by her but won't be the last. It's taught me more about the Japanese internment in WW2 and the huge suspicious around them.
Removing character names really struck me as not depersonalisation but nameless people, as in the camps. The final chapter will stay with me for a while.
bailedI was glad to have seen some of the somewhat ambivalent reviews of this from other Littens, because it made it easier to bail when it wasn‘t working for me. I gave the audio about an hour and a half and I was just so bored.
