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RATING: 2.5 STARS
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I was excited to read to this one, but after a few chapters I was really forcing myself to read this one. Had this book not been for a group read, I may have given up reading it. It was an interesting subject matter, but the writing style didn't suck me in. I also didn't find the characters engaging. I wasn't invested in any of them to see how it ended. I kept reading more to participate in the group read.
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I was excited to read to this one, but after a few chapters I was really forcing myself to read this one. Had this book not been for a group read, I may have given up reading it. It was an interesting subject matter, but the writing style didn't suck me in. I also didn't find the characters engaging. I wasn't invested in any of them to see how it ended. I kept reading more to participate in the group read.
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A decent story involving Lady Lucile Duff Gordon, whom I had read about a year or two ago, so I was drawn to this fictional account of part of her life.
It is 1912, and Tess, an aspiring seamstress, exists as a maid in England and becomes fed up with her life. On a whim, she heads down to the docks where the great ships leave for America. She hopes to find someone to take her on as a lady's maid. This is where you have to just go with the flow and believe that someone as high in station a Duff Go ...more
It is 1912, and Tess, an aspiring seamstress, exists as a maid in England and becomes fed up with her life. On a whim, she heads down to the docks where the great ships leave for America. She hopes to find someone to take her on as a lady's maid. This is where you have to just go with the flow and believe that someone as high in station a Duff Go ...more
Not quite what I was expecting, but well written and interesting with few pacing issues. I had hoped for more vivid descriptions of the period' s fashions and more development of a few of the characters (Tess, Jack, & Pinky). There were a few too many storylines running in my opinion to give ample development to the fashions & the characters mentioned. The love triangle was a minor element of the book with the main story revolving around the Titanic Hearings and the question, "What would you do
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Nov 21, 2023
Navah
marked it as to-read
