Books by Katherine Webb
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review 1: This is a fabulous book. Compelling, beautifully crafted characters, a historical context that is well researched but doesn't drown you in detail and a cleverly woven plot. I got totally lost in the story once I got into it (I did find it a little slow to start, hence the four ra...
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review 1: This is a laborious read at 469 pages but overall worth it. I don't usually prefer books that parallel stories from the present to a historical time, in this case to 1937. But thankfully, in this book it was absolutely pivotal to weave the stories together as it explains everythi...
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review 1: A historic mystery which is been given by a good sense of the epoque, with a Bronte style (the damned Johnathan) where maybe it could be real in an earlier age (i.e. in Borgias) but here, well, I found it somehow, so soapopera style. Nice story, likely (and unlikely) characteres...
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review 1: The story is well put together and jumps between past and present with no confusion, plus some great cliffhangers towards the end. Wish more authors could do this so skilfully. It does start slowly, but the tension builds and you get the uneasy feeing that bad things could happen...
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review 1: An engaging read. I enjoyed the setting; the author was very descriptive. The characters were very well developed, most of them were not very likable though. Good historical mystery that mostly kept my interest. I just found it to be a pretty depressing read and it left me with a...