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AUTHOR Raybourn, Deanna
TITLE A Curious Beginning
DATE READ 07/21/2019
RATING 4.5/B+
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GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Crime Fiction/2015/Recorded Books/ 9 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #1 Veronica Speedwell
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 108/114
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CHARACTERS Veronica Speedwell/ world traveler, woman of adventure and Lepidopterist
TIME/PLACE London/1887
COMMENTS A fun read about a very independent curious woman in the Victorian era. Veronica has been brought up by her spi ...more
TITLE A Curious Beginning
DATE READ 07/21/2019
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Crime Fiction/2015/Recorded Books/ 9 CD's
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #1 Veronica Speedwell
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 108/114
GROUP READ
CHARACTERS Veronica Speedwell/ world traveler, woman of adventure and Lepidopterist
TIME/PLACE London/1887
COMMENTS A fun read about a very independent curious woman in the Victorian era. Veronica has been brought up by her spi ...more
Gadzooks!! I do not have the time or patience for a protagonist who is so aggressively Not Like Other Girls, and despises and belittles all the other women around her.
I've been wanting to read this book for a long time now! it's so popular, and I've enjoyed everything else I've read by Raybourn. But No Thank You to Veronica Speedwell. I'm out. DNF after the first chapter.
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Oh how clever is that name??? Veronica Speedwell? I love it! ...more
I've been wanting to read this book for a long time now! it's so popular, and I've enjoyed everything else I've read by Raybourn. But No Thank You to Veronica Speedwell. I'm out. DNF after the first chapter.
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Oh how clever is that name??? Veronica Speedwell? I love it! ...more
So glad to read this start of a new series for Deanna Raybourn. The characters and their mystery are both very finely done. Veronica, the main female character lives life very leanly and that makes her interesting for a woman of the period and in contrast to life in our century. There is a strong partnership forming here with main character Stoker, with an ambience and energy different from any of Raybourn's past characters. The new volume of this story is out this month, Jan 17, and I am lookin
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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
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I haven't read much about this time period either fiction or nonfiction, so I'm afraid I accepted most of the background the author presented as truth or what life might have been during the late nineteenth Century. As are many books with female protagonists Veronica is strong and capable of holding her own against her male counterparts so easy to rout for. It was a nice change from many books now being published to not have several side plots with fantasy component.
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So good! Delightful, charming and so much fun! Mistaken identity, a brilliant scientist, a dark and complicated hero, and the Queen’s Jubilee make for an entertaining read! I can’t wait to read the next one!
