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Faye L. Booth

Auteur de Cover the Mirrors

2 oeuvres 77 utilisateurs 9 critiques

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Comprend les noms: Faye Booth

Œuvres de Faye L. Booth

Cover the Mirrors (2007) 45 exemplaires
Trades of the Flesh (2009) 32 exemplaires

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Date de naissance
1980
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Lancashire, England, UK
Lieux de résidence
England, UK

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I read this entire book but I did not like it much. It was just weird...I never would have guessed or even could have pictured this book going the way it went and I didn't like it. I loved how Lydia starts her life on her own terms, I love the concept of a "lady of the night" being independent...a la Sugar...but I just didn't feel the connection to this book that I wanted to.
 
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rosetyper9 | 2 autres critiques | Nov 12, 2015 |
I'm not entirely sure how this book ended up in my TBR stack; I suppose it caught my eye when looking for historical fiction at one point or another. It was pure romantic fluff though; harmless enough but lacking in depth, genuinely interesting characters or any sort of complexity in plot.
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mari_reads | 5 autres critiques | Sep 29, 2012 |
It is 1856 and when Molly Pinner inherits her late aunt Florries mantle as Prestons most successful medium, she soon realizes that her aunt was not a magnet for spirits, but a clever con artist. Molly soon puts her qualms aside and takes well to her new trade. However, Molly finds herself battling an increasing sense of shame over her burgeoning sexualityover which she has less control than the so-called spirits she conjures for her credulous clients. Molly and William Hamilton, a successful businessman, embark on a passionate affair, and Mollys friendship with her oldest friend Jenny is destroyed when it transpires that William owns the mill where Jenny works. Molly soon finds herself married to a man she does not truly love, and pregnant with a child she does not want.

My Thoughts:

This book had so much going for it and could have delivered a lot more. I was instantly drawn to this book, firstly because of the spiritulism and secondly because of it being set in the victorian era. I was really disappointed with the book as it lacked atmosphere and the author could have delved deeper into the victorian way of life.

However, the story was ok and for most of the book I was enjoying it but the end part of the book badly lets it down. Events take a turn at the end of the book and I was left feeling that it was rather silly. At one point I thought I may have been reading a childrens book only there were very mid sex scenes.

A lot more could have helped this book become what it could have been. I think if you want victorain gothic then there atre better books out there. Hence I have to be mean with my rating.
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½
 
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tina1969 | 5 autres critiques | Aug 13, 2012 |
Faye Booth has written a different kind of historical romance. It’s set in Victorian days, but this is no tale of a poor but genteel woman rescued by a duke or lord. Protagonist Lydia Ketch is only a teen when her mother dies in wretched poverty, with her last words to Lydia being to take care of her younger sister Annabel- the brains of the family, the one with a future. There aren’t many options for poor girls with no family in that era, so Lydia picks the one that looks to be the most lucrative- she enters ‘the trade’.

Good luck is a relative thing; most people wouldn’t think of working in a brothel as ‘good luck’. But in that time and place, the stability, comfort and safety of a brothel is a downright luxurious situation compared to working the streets. Preston may not be London, where the Ripper is on the loose, but the streets still present dangers to women. The fact that Lydia finds a madam who is good to her ‘girls’- and even allows Annabel to work there as a maid while finishing her schooling- is a huge bonus. The working girls and Annabel all dream of a fairy tale ending to their lives.

Lydia knows there is no such thing, especially for such as her. When she meets Henry Shadwell, a young surgeon who is making extra money with both pornographic photography and illicit anatomy lessons- stolen bodies and all- she finds her world expanding, both sexually and financially. She’s smart, ambitious, hard working and ready to take on any new situation, and makes the most of her opportunities. Life is looking up. But not too far up; she is to know tragic loss, and while Henry is a kind man with a passion for Lydia, he is still a man of his time and class, not a prince on a white horse.

There are no caricatures here, no black or white. The world and the characters are shades of gray as all real people are. Booth has done a lot of research of the era and it shows in her novel. Recommended!
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lauriebrown54 | 2 autres critiques | May 7, 2011 |

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Œuvres
2
Membres
77
Popularité
#231,246
Évaluation
3.0
Critiques
9
ISBN
12

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