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Cargando... The Woman in the Mirror: A Novel (edición 2020)por Rebecca James (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. DNF around 50%! I've tried for several days to finish the audio version of this book, but I just can't find myself taking to the story. Today was at least the third time I tried to listen to it, but I find myself almost depressed with the thought of listening to it. So, now I'm giving up and I will pick something else to listen to! Ok, this one is Gothic with a capital G. Isolated neo-Gothic manor house atop a seaside cliff (cue the Dark Shadows theme music); naive governess; precocious boy and girl twins, brooding widower captain, previous governess met a dubious end, painting whose human subject moves, an eerie mirror with a past, and madness. That’s the 1947 storyline. Then there is the present-day storyline, the adoptee looking for her roots, which may be in that house. Melodrama galore, bur I enjoyed it. The audiobook use of two narrators for the two storylines worked well. In terms of general gothic creepiness, this book has it in spades. However, there were some plot points that were sticking issues for me, and the tacked-on ending/epilogue detracted from my overall enjoyment. I'm not saying I'll never read a book by Rebecca James again, but I doubt she'll become one of my go-to authors to read (unlike Simone St. James, whose 1920s-era gothic romantic mysteries are novels I'll read over and over again.) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Rebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey's twin children. Falling under the de Greys' spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then the twins' adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled. Something malicious resents her presence, something clouding her senses and threatening her very sanity. In present day New York, art gallery curator Rachel Wright has learned she is a descendant of the de Greys and heir to Winterbourne. Adopted as an infant, she never knew her birth parents or her lineage. At long last, Rachel will find answers to questions about her identity that have haunted her entire life. But what she finds in Cornwall is a devastating tragic legacy that has afflicted generations of de Greys. A legacy borne from greed and deceit, twisted by madness, and suffused with unrequited love and unequivocal rage"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I've tried for several days to finish the audio version of this book, but I just can't find myself taking to the story. Today was at least the third time I tried to listen to it, but I find myself almost depressed with the thought of listening to it. So, now I'm giving up and I will pick something else to listen to!