Belgravia in Around the World in 80 Books

Mar 09, 2020 Tony rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, war-napoleonic, novels, setting-england-london, adapted-for-film, historical-fiction

If the idea of a marriage plot that unfolds at the dawn of the Victorian era, written by the creator of Downton Abbey, sounds appealing, then you are the perfect audience for this. This frothy costume soap opera opens on the even of the Battle of Waterloo, at the famous ball hosted in Brussels by the Duchess of Richmond. Following this introduction, the remainder of the book takes place some 25 years later in London.

The plot revolves around various combinations of marriages and inheritances, pl ...more

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May 25, 2016 Lisa of Hopewell rated it liked it

Shelves: audio-books, read-in-2016

I can't be the only one who bailed on this behemoth? I read masses of historical fiction, but this.....

First, It does not move at the clip of Downton Abbey or Gosford Park. Second, the tedium of all the treachery made me throw this back about 9 or so hours into the audio version. (I also kept imagining Downton's Lady Rosamund Painswck --Samatha Bond--when Lady Bucklemybits or whatever her name was--spoke). I had little, if any, sympathy for any character. Just back stab after betrayal after two- ...more

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