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Bristol House (2013)

by Beverly Swerling(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0670025933 (ISBN13: 9780670025930)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: This book was amazing. It was interesting and complex and made me want to do nothing but listen to it. I like that Mr. Famous Guy isn't a jerk - he's a genuine nice person who believes in Annie and wants to help her, and his mother is great too. I enjoyed the Jewish connections to the story, and only caught one place where Swerling was off in her research. Overall: I'm definitely going to read this again. And purchase the physical book.
review 2: Entertaining high end trash. Completely ridiculous and implausible in nearly every way. However, the historical fiction sections dealing with Tudor England were enjoyable. Would have much preferred that book and done without the ludicrous modern section which crammed in just about every possible pulp fiction ideal f... morerom successful novels of the past two decades within its pages. Seems like instead of an outline, this book had a checklist of things that "sell" these days: Thomas Cromwell (Tudor England), check; Ghosts and Time Travel (check), lots of descriptions of food and travel, check; A plucky heroine with a past and an estranged child (check), handsome boyfriend and some descriptive romance, check. Even secret societies, religious intrigue, ancient pacts, even Nazis and most implausibly since the internal timing doesn't work, world war II era code breakers. Fine though for a distracting, fun and easy read. less

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