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Cargando... The Duchess: A Novelpor Danielle Steel
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Borrow the start of Pride and Prejudice, but make everything as much worse than that as you can. Make sure you keep all the voices modern so that your readers won't find themselves in a strange culture. Decide to make your heroine fall in love, but forget to show any signs of it. (It should be enough to just repeat again and again that it happened.) Throw in lots of juicy but unimportant details about minor characters to paint them as black as you can. And have everyone run around in the final pages singing, "Happy end! Happy end!" Even with this poor recipe, Danielle Steel can't write a totally awful book, but she comes very close. She also doesn't explain how, if there is an entail so that her father can't leave anything to her, (not anything?) her brother is then able to sell the property a few years later. Certainly it is still entailed. But let's not let little historical niggles bother us. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Traicionada. Abandonada. Invencible. Anglique Latham no es realmente duquesa, aunque tras perder a su madre cuando era muy pequea, se ha criado en el majestuoso castillo de Belgrave junto a su padre, el duque de Westerfield, que siempre la quiso con locura. Pero ahora su padre ha muerto, y sus hermanastros han decidido desheredarla. Est sola en el mundo. A sus dieciocho aos, Anglique es lista y muy hermosa, pero tiene mala suerte, pues, aunque consigue colocarse como niera de una familia acomodada, un suceso desagradable e injusto la deja otra vez en la calle. Sin hogar, sin referencias ni contactos, viajar a Pars. All, despus de rescatar a una joven de una situacin horrible, tendr la clave de su futuro. Un negocio inslito y poco convencional, una ocupacin, siempre al borde del escndalo, que nadie espera de la hija de un duque. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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― Danielle Steel, The Duchess
This was a quick breezy read. It is about a young bereft girl. Betrayed by family members, she must make her own way in the world. She picks an unusual way to do it.
One thing I do not like are book snobs. I know people who flat out refuse to read Danielle Steel because of her reputation for writing romance novels. I think book snobs lose out on alot of opportunities to read good literature simply because they judge themselves and others to harshly when it comes to their reading choices.
I read everything and that includes the occasional Steel book. While I moderately enjoyed this and loved the historical aspect of the book, I had a tough time buying into the premise. That is not to say the book is bad. It isn't. It keeps you reading and I liked Angelique, finding her gutsy and interesting. But I have enjoyed other Steel books more and much of what happens in this book made me a bit skeptical.
So I would say a solid 3 star read. Not bad but not my favorite of Steel. ( )