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A Curious Beginning
A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)
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Amy
Dec 24, 2018 rated it really liked it
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I really loved this one! Veronica Speedwell is a one of a kind character. Deanna Raybourn did an amazing job creating both a world and a group of characters that are truly outstanding! This is one that I suspect that I will be recommending over and over again. Solid mystery. Outstanding historical fiction. And the relationship between Mr. Stoker and Veronica is one of my favorites in all of literature! I highly recommend this one! You can't go wrong with this one! ...more
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Dec 11, 2023 rated it liked it
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This was a really great story and I loved how smart it was. I also really loved how the story unfolded and the secrets that were revealed. It was a little slow at the middle, and I’m not completely sure the traveling show part was necessary at all except as a plot point for the “fake dating”, but it got really intense near the end.

I’m missing the feels for this book. I like the story and the idea. I love the way the information was deduced, I love the little tidbits of knowledge about butterflie ...more
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Jocelyn
Jun 19, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Veronica Speedwell is certainly a curious young woman. Her name for example... a mystery that is not solved in this story and may never be. Veronica tells the story herself and her tone is quite haughty and very self-assured .. she certainly appears to believe herself superior to almost everyone. Every second page she proclaims herself a cliche: feminist, free-thinker, scientist, pragmatist and yet one cannot help liking her. She champions curiosity but appears to have shown no curiosity in who ...more
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Karen
Aug 16, 2016 rated it really liked it
Great beginning to a series. Veronica Speedwell is a wonderful heroine, reminiscent of Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody. ...more
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Cindy
May 05, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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A very interesting mystery. Well written with fascinating characters. I look forward to reading more in this series.
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