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Leaving Everything Most Loved LP: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (2013)

by Jacqueline Winspear(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0062253441 (ISBN13: 9780062253446)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

HarperLuxe

series

Maisie Dobbs

review 1: I felt sad coming to the end of the Maisie Dobbs series--this volume is the last one of the series. In it, Maisie investigates the murder of two Indian women, also exposes larceny and fraud in the couple who operate a hostel where the women lived, helps Billy Beale (her erstwhile assistant) get a job with the Compton Corporation, decides to close up her office and travel as her mentor, Maurice Blanche, had done, and also remains undecided about her future with James Compton (although a deadline has been set by James for a decision to be made). The author once again entrances the reader--at least this reader!--by her intricate and interesting plot twists, which enable interest to be sustained until the completion of the book. I'll miss Maisie Dobbs, but I also suspect that ... moreif she marries James and lives a less adventurous life, the material wouldn't be as interesting.
review 2: I have read Maisie from book one. I even considered her to be one of my heroes a brave an independent young woman living her life on her own terms. My hope was unlike most mystery series heroines, Maisie would not get married and truly become a woman of her time and stay single. I enjoyed each one of her adventures up until the last two books of the series. Elegy for Eddie was a struggle to get through. This book wasn't much easier. Maisie isn't brave young woman I remember. She can't make up her mind about anything, a theme that runs through both books. Maisie keeps James dangling instead of either marrying him or letting him go. I hope that James finds someone else in Canada and leaves her, would serve her right. In this book Maisie is too wrapped up in herself and what to do with her life and the result was she lost me. I would've loved more to hear more about East Indian immigrants in England and the lives they led, more about Usha for sure. I wish I had more to say about this book, but it was that forgettable to me, I skimmed most of the pages so not much is staying with me. I can only hope when the Maisie reboot comes out next spring, it will be a new and improved Maisie and all of these issues will be behind her. less

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