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Cargando... Velvet Shadows (2001)por Andre Norton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It's very - Gothic. The setting - San Francisco shortly after the Civil War - is interesting, but the actual events in the story are so overblown as to totally shortcircuit any suspension of disbelief. And the ending is really bad - she collapses at the climax and finds out later, through a simple report, the truth about the girl (which makes all of the previous thoughts and concerns about her rather moot). And then she runs away because she's 'unclean' (but of course it has a happy ending, it is a romance). It's fine as a Gothic Romance, which makes it a not-very-interesting book to me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton's books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Tamaris Penfold was hired as a companion to Alain Sauvage's frail but lovely half-sister, Victorine. She would be a "friend" who would try to protect her from another scandalous involvement--like the one back in France. Alain was a generous and thoughtful employer. Victorine a bright and amusing companion. But Tamaris could not help wondering about the significance of the gold and enamel snake Victorine wore around her neck. Nor could she stop thinking about the fact that someone had been going through her belongings and leaving strange objects among them. Then one day Alain was forced to reveal the true story of Victorine's past. A past, Tamaris suspected, that would soon gain on the future and place everyone at Rancho del Sol under a shadow of constant fear . . . No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Romance is not really Norton's forte, some of the characters are based on real historic figures but there is not enough factual background to support a fairly thin plot.
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