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World Hotels - The Adventuress (A House for the Season, Book 5)
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List Price: $2.95
Our Price: $113.04
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780312910617
ISBN: 0312910614
Label: St Martins Mass Market Paper
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
Publication Date: 1988-09
Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper
Studio: St Martins Mass Market Paper
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Summary: worst in the series, but still worth reading....
Comment: I am reading Chesney's "A House For The Season" series in order. Book 5-The Adventuress, is, in my opinion, the worst so far of the series, and a book I'd only recommend to die hard Regency or Chesney readers wanting to read the whole series.
Chesney seemed to "jump the shark" with this particular book as she had everyone-hero, heroine, and sadly some of the servants-behaving in absolutely asinine and "too stupid to live" ways.
The heroine, Emily was a throughly unlikeable woman in relation to the other heroines in the series. She is very naive, gullible, vain,and very greedy. Her behavior while lying to the Earl, but not telling him the truth because of her greed at becoming a Countess was frankly sickening.
The Earl is not much better. He has an irrational hatred of servants since the death of his first wife. It seems his staffs gossiping almost sent him to the gallows for her murder (that he's innocent of BTW)-but he carries his, frankly weird, hate for ANY servant with him-for the next EIGHT YEARS. He treats the 67 Clarges staff-whom the reader has grown to love-heartlessly and rudely. Honestly-both hero and heroine are some of the worst I've seen in a Regency-totally unlikable-you won't CARE how their story ends.
Finally Chesney's decision to have one particular servant behave 360 degrees from their behavior in the past four books had me rushing to finish this book and move on to book 6.
Only minor, glimmering moments of good writing as we've seen in the other books has convinced me not to give The Adventuress less than 3 stars. And it is those moments only that would recommend this otherwise bad book.
3 stars.
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Summary: A lowly maid the CATCH of the Season? ?
Comment: Beauty is a powerful magnet and if done properly can fool all of high society's gentility. Emily shares in a bequest and becomes the darling of society, however, rumor begins that she is a runnaway maid and her "uncle" a former butler. The fifth volume of "A House for the Season" is delightful and fun. Emily gets into a tangle that only the servents can pull her out of.
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