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Thalassa Ali

Autor de A Singular Hostage

3 Obras 416 Miembros 12 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Incluye los nombres: Talasa Ali, Thalassa Ali

Series

Obras de Thalassa Ali

A Singular Hostage (2002) 192 copias
A Beggar at the Gate (2004) 121 copias
Companions of Paradise (2006) 103 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
19xx
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lugares de residencia
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pakistan
Ocupaciones
stockbroker
writer

Miembros

Reseñas

So many emotions running through my mind, I was so moved with what Mariam had sacrificed. She has braved it all like a white woman and yet embraced her path as a Punjab's wife. Though she had to go through a tough journey to learn the nooks, with all the dreams and wars, she has truly prevail it all. Many unexpected turn of events especially since mixed marriage was abhor back then. Definitely a good read and I didn't expect the book to end as it is.

Here's my full review:
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Sholee | otra reseña | Sep 9, 2021 |
A young Englishwoman, shipped off to British India to find a suitable husband among Queen Victoria's military community, becomes entangled with local politics when she is thrust into the position of rescuer and guardian of a young child being held political hostage by the Maharaja of Punjab.

The descriptions of life in northern India (now Pakistan) during the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, is suitably colorful, but the action borders on the melodramatic, with many hair-raising escapades, a forced wedding, an escape from the seraglio, an is-it-or-isn't-it romance, and an ending that just kind of dribbles off without a clear resolution.

Ali, American-born and married to a Pakistani, manages (barely) to stay out of bodice-ripper territory, mostly by keeping everyone chaste. But her heroine is cut from the traditional cloth -- an independent, unconventional, headstrong maiden whose curiosity about the exotic locale leads her, step by step, into deeper intrigue and danger.

It's not a bad read, but don't expect much more than light entertainment here.
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LyndaInOregon | 7 reseñas más. | Dec 14, 2018 |
I got a few chapters in but it is not my cup of tea. Mariana Givens feels like a 21st century girl in the 19th century and the writing was not that fabulous so I'm putting this and it's sequal back into the BookCrossing to release piles.
 
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amyem58 | 7 reseñas más. | Jan 27, 2016 |
In the days of the British Raj it was common for young English women to be sent to India in order to find a husband. So it was with Mariana Givens. However, this unconventional young woman finds herself involved in the rescue of a young boy who has been held hostage by a maharaja who believes him to be a sort of good-luck talisman.

This was a very pleasurable read.
½
 
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bookwoman247 | 7 reseñas más. | Oct 29, 2012 |

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Estadísticas

Obras
3
Miembros
416
Popularidad
#58,580
Valoración
½ 3.7
Reseñas
12
ISBNs
23
Idiomas
2

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