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Mar. 16th, 2024 08:08 pmUnraveller by Frances Hardinge (2022)
I have been blown away multiple times by various Hardinge books, but maybe my expectations are just raised too high by now, because I was not blown away by this one. Don't get me wrong, it's still a good book, and Hardinge has more imagination in her little finger than some other authors do as a whole. I guess I just felt that it had too much headlong action, and the beginning was a little too episodic for me.
Charles Edward Stuart, by Frank McLynn (1988)
I suppose it was inevitable that I would someday read this biography, which appears to be the most thorough one. It's clearly based on a lot of archival material and does have some interesting info, but it also annoyed me enough that I stopped reading it halfway through. ( This rant largely cobbled together from my frustrated comments in Cahn's salon )
I have been blown away multiple times by various Hardinge books, but maybe my expectations are just raised too high by now, because I was not blown away by this one. Don't get me wrong, it's still a good book, and Hardinge has more imagination in her little finger than some other authors do as a whole. I guess I just felt that it had too much headlong action, and the beginning was a little too episodic for me.
Charles Edward Stuart, by Frank McLynn (1988)
I suppose it was inevitable that I would someday read this biography, which appears to be the most thorough one. It's clearly based on a lot of archival material and does have some interesting info, but it also annoyed me enough that I stopped reading it halfway through. ( This rant largely cobbled together from my frustrated comments in Cahn's salon )
