Al Rayhan Rayhan itibaren Hamidpur, Bihar 841413, Hindistan
I received this book as part of Goodreads giveaways and first reads. Firstly, I'm going to presume this book is written with children or young adults in mind, as the text, prose and plot aren't really at an adult level. It's a short romance novel, set in the Regency era, but there's a bunch of bizarre anachronistic errors that made me sit back and scratch my head. Conversations are peculiar, two young sisters setting up a shop, attitudes between men and women. Things happen extremely fast with barely a passing mention to it, and the plot jumps from one thing to another that I wondered if large passages were missing. Three sisters are together - one sister leaves - oh, hello aunt - London??? - father is drunk - oh, the mother's actually dead, okay - how old are these girls? - everything's gone - suddenly we're in a Duke's house - wait, what's going on? - murder conspiracy? huh??? And so on. A child, say, age ten or eleven, may miss some of these peculiarities, which is why I think it may be better intended for that age group. Now with a bit of polish and a re-write this could do fairly well.
really wanted to like this as historical fiction is one of my favorite genres but just didn't. the dialogue was really tedious and difficult to follow
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A solid book with interesting relationships. The end left me feeling a bit rotten about the lead female character, which may have been the point. A pretty quick and interesting read.