Vanessa Riley
Autor de Island Queen
Series
Obras de Vanessa Riley
A Taste of Traditional Regency Romances: Extended excerpts of Regency novels (2015) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Declutter Your Home: Step by Step Guide for Busy People to Organized and Clutter-Free Life (Declutter and Simplify Your… (2015) 3 copias
Improve Your Home Box Set: Declutter, Organize and Improve Your Home with Our Simple Tips and Hacks (DIY Projects) (2015) 2 copias
3-Day Plan for Clutter-Free Living: Simple Steps to Organize Your Home and Life (Organize and Simplify Your Life) by… (2015) 2 copias
Essential Oils!: The Amazing Beginners Book on the Different Mind-Blowing Uses of Essential Oils 2 copias
The Bargain: The Complete Season One - Episodes I-IV (A Port Elizabeth Regency Tale: Season One ) (2017) 1 copia
I Can Sell Creative Things Online: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Selling Things on Etsy (Etsy Empire) (2014) 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- South Carolina, USA
- Agente
- Sarah Younger
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Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 41
- Miembros
- 898
- Popularidad
- #28,532
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 68
- ISBNs
- 99
- Idiomas
- 2
Vanessa Riley normally writes romance novels and she’s brought that same level of readability to this book. The chapters were short and quick to get through which set a quick pace through a very long novel. I did start to lose steam towards the end so I could have done with 100 less pages, but Dorothy's life is full of events. I would have liked to see a little more of the day-to-day running of her business and how she trained the girls she employed, but (as I mentioned) it's already a long book and Riley chose to focus on Dorothy's family and relationships.
I had two small critiques that have to do with the historical setting. The first I noticed because a review of another historical novel mentioned it. The phrase “my truth” is a term that’s been popping up during the last few years and it does not have a place earlier than the 21st century. Every time that phrase comes up it pulls me out of the setting. There’s a lot of modern feminist ideas being explored, but given that Dorothy’s character is ahead of her time it never feels out of place, but I could do without the specifically modern feminist language. The second thing is nitpicky, but the term corset is used often and they didn't have corsets in the 18th century, they had stays. Some points I think the author means stays and others I think she means bodice since the character plays with her “corset strings” when she’s fully dressed. Yes, I have been watching historical costumers on youtube, how did you know?
Aside from those things I was delighted to finally get a historical novel set someplace other than Western Europe during the World Wars. There are so many places in history that would be interesting to explore and I’m glad Riley is introducing the world to Dorothy, whose story is so radical that if it was only a story one would call in unbelievable. But life is stranger than fiction and Dorothy’s life shows how true that is.
*Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me a copy in exchange for an honest review.… (más)