Books by Dörthe Binkert
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review 1: I received this book from a goodreads giveaway a few months ago and just now got around to reading it.Simply put, I did not enjoy this book. It definitely wasn't what i was expecting judging from the synopsis. Much of the book is spent with characters who have nothing to do with ...
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review 1: The story is intriguing, but the writing is borderline terrible. The author can't decide whether she's telling the story in third person limited (from the perspective of 1, 2, 3, or 10 different characters) or in third person omniscient, and this can change from one sentence to ...
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review 1: This story takes place during the late 1800's, over the course of one summer at a spa hotel in the Swiss Alps. The characters are either people who work at the hotel or guests living there for the season. It's called "Portrait of a Girl" because much of it revolves around a gir...
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review 1: At the turn of the century, it was not uncommon for large passenger ships to find stowaways on board. Usually of the lower classes, these passengers were kept in steerage and usually turned back to Europe once they reached Ellis Island and were denied entry into America. But in ...
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review 1: The storyline could have been very interesting - a desperately depressed, very wealthy woman, boarding a ship (as a stowaway) to escape her home after the death of her young son - but the story was not well executed. Her interractions with the other characters could have been mo...