A Splendid Defiance
Something my previous blog doesn't mention is that, like my previous titles, I've revised parts of Defiance - in particular, those sequences towards the end of the book involving Justin and Abby. There are 2 or 3 new scenes here, intended to 'flesh out' the original and improve the fact-fiction balance.
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Dec 11, 2012 10:46AM
only discovered Stella Riley in the past few weeks and have adored every one of her books that I could get hold of -four in all - am thrilled that Ms Riley plans to make all of them available as ebooks as the paperbacks can be difficult to source; The Parfait Knight and The Mesalliance were both wonderful; wallowing in A Splendid Defiance at the minute and hating the thought that I'm nearing the end of Justin and Abigail's story - lovely characterization and great historcal detail - when are the rest to follow?
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While I understand the desire to update some of the novel, and the first half has in many respects become much stronger, I actually liked the way in which the other events of the Civil War were delivered in the original.I also understand why the author decided to increase the interaction between Abby and Justin in the second half of the novel. It is just a shame that Abby became something of a 'wet blanket' this time round and that was not something I felt about the original.
We still have not heard whether we will at some point be getting the final unpublish Civil War novel.
