India Holton
Autor de The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
Series
Obras de India Holton
A Wild Wedding 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- New Zealand
- País (para mapa)
- New Zealand
- Lugares de residencia
- New Zealand
- Agente
- Taylor Haggerty (Root Literary)
Miembros
Debates
New Author: India Holton en Kindred Spirits (diciembre 2022)
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 1,679
- Popularidad
- #15,312
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 55
- ISBNs
- 23
- Favorito
- 1
Cecilia Bassingwaite is the perfect Victorian lady, sipping cups of tea with her Aunt and minding her Ps and Qs. She is also a pirate, a thief, and aiming to make a name for herself as a fully-fledged member of the house-flying Wisteria Society of pirate ladies, by proving she is as much of a scoundrel as the best of them. Captain Ned Lightbourne enters as her would-be assassin and the two of them embark on a series of adventures, becoming embroiled in Captain Morvarth’s fiendish plan to banish all women back to their tea-rooms.
This is a light-hearted quirky romcom which began as entertaining and funny, but soon became just too silly and almost slap-stick for me. It’s a nice idea, but the humour in making a caricature of the Englishness of the English has been done many times, and often very badly by non-English authors. There were some entertaining moments but I’m not sure I could face the second book in the series.… (más)