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Cargando... Maisie Dobbs (edición 2014)por Jacqueline Winspear (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is the first in the Maisie Dobbs series and includes her origin story. Excellent writing, character development, and story (the aftermath of war). The engaging story is set after WW1 London and Kent with flashbacks to her experience as a nurse on the battlefield. ( ) I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't stay very interested. Maisie, in the end, was just too perfect to be likeable, and there were no real villians at all. Even the Major turned out to be just a man driven mad by the damands of the war, and his henchman similarly twisted and confused. Her love interest had been conveniently disposed of with a heroic death, all the characters were saved at the last minute, etc. Even Disney cartoon characters are more interesting. But there were several bright moments that rescued this book. I was moved by Maisie's experiences and observations as a field nurse during the war. Until he was revealed as a sad lunatic who only needed Maisie's understanding to be stopped in his tracks, I found the mystery of the Major and The Retreat intriguing. Those bright moments held me to the story, kept me slogging through the dull parts. At the very least, this story kept my mind otherwise occupied while getting my chores done over the weekend. That's worth something.
A strong protagonist and a lively sense of time and place carry readers along, and the details lead to further thought and understanding about the futility and horror of war, as well as a desire to hear more of Maisie. This is the beginning of a series, and a propitious one at that. For a clever and resourceful young woman who has just set herself up in business as a private investigator, Maisie seems a bit too sober and much too sad. Pertenece a las seriesMaisie Dobbs (1) Contenido enTiene como guía/complementario de referencia aPremiosListas de sobresalientes
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HTML:No le pierdas la pista. Nunca has conocido a nadie como ella. Londres, 1929. Maisie Dobbs abre una oficina como flamante investigadora privada en el centro de Londres y se convierte en una de las primeras mujeres detective de la época. Su primer caso, la investigación de la supuesta infidelidad dela esposa de un hombre de la alta sociedad, la lleva a un lugar conocido como El Retiro, un refugio de convalecientes de la Primera Guerra Mu No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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