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Chargement... The Duchess: A Novelpar Danielle Steel
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Borrow the start of Pride and Prejudice, but make everything as much worse than that as you can. Make sure you keep all the voices modern so that your readers won't find themselves in a strange culture. Decide to make your heroine fall in love, but forget to show any signs of it. (It should be enough to just repeat again and again that it happened.) Throw in lots of juicy but unimportant details about minor characters to paint them as black as you can. And have everyone run around in the final pages singing, "Happy end! Happy end!" Even with this poor recipe, Danielle Steel can't write a totally awful book, but she comes very close. She also doesn't explain how, if there is an entail so that her father can't leave anything to her, (not anything?) her brother is then able to sell the property a few years later. Certainly it is still entailed. But let's not let little historical niggles bother us. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Anglique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Anglique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable to secure employment without references or connections, Anglique desperately makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam--and suddenly sees a possibility: Open an elegant house of pleasure that will protect its women and serve only the best clients. With her upper-class breeding, her impeccable style, and her father's bequest, Anglique creates Le Boudoir, soon a sensational establishment where powerful men, secret desires, and beautiful, sophisticated women come together. But living on the edge of scandal, can she ever make a life of her own--or regain her rightful place in the world? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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― Danielle Steel, The Duchess
This was a quick breezy read. It is about a young bereft girl. Betrayed by family members, she must make her own way in the world. She picks an unusual way to do it.
One thing I do not like are book snobs. I know people who flat out refuse to read Danielle Steel because of her reputation for writing romance novels. I think book snobs lose out on alot of opportunities to read good literature simply because they judge themselves and others to harshly when it comes to their reading choices.
I read everything and that includes the occasional Steel book. While I moderately enjoyed this and loved the historical aspect of the book, I had a tough time buying into the premise. That is not to say the book is bad. It isn't. It keeps you reading and I liked Angelique, finding her gutsy and interesting. But I have enjoyed other Steel books more and much of what happens in this book made me a bit skeptical.
So I would say a solid 3 star read. Not bad but not my favorite of Steel. (