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The Queen's Dollmaker (2010)

by Christine Trent(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0758238576 (ISBN13: 9780758238573)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Kensington

review 1: Sadly, this is a perfect example of the need of the warning to writers to "show, don't tell". The history is well-researched, and the story and characters seem generally good, but the storytelling keeps jumping between a few detailed scenes of the people interacting, and long stretches of describing, in summary form, what happened to them. In many ways it's like reading a very detailed synopsis of a book, with selected scenes inserted as examples. Sadly, I never felt like I was actually reading the novel itself.
review 2: It just wasn't believable to me. First Marie Antoinette comes through the town as the new future Queen, gets out of her carriage and shares marzipan candy with the children (it was like a Disney scene.) Next up the fire scene began and the wa... morey the family and neighbors acted just seemed unreal. Your home, business and city are burning and you're speaking in terms like "very well then" please wife and daughter stand right here in the midst of the fire, oh let me stop and kiss you too. As good and helpful as people are, this scene was just a bit too much.DNF less

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