Books by Lynn Shepherd
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review 1: Well. I read this all the way through. And kudos to the levels of research done by Shepherd, she worked hard to make this tale breathe. But I found it incredibly depressing. The Percy Shelly/Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly saga never seemed more ugly than as it is portrayed here. ...
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review 1: Did not finish. Just... That narrator. The story was interesting, the setting was well-developed... Potential to be a fabulous book and exactly the kind of mystery like to read when I step outside the YA bubble. But I could not cope with that weirdly omniscient and completely con...
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review 1: Interesting story and premise with characters well laid out but some glaring writing mistakes that jarred a bit for me. Multiple references to the present day and 2013 and current mental health terminology etc etc acted only to pull the reader out of the era the book is set in ru...
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review 1: What a twist on the original Mansfield Park! I thoroughly enjoyed it. The cast was all present and accounted for, but their flaws and story line all switched places. After reading the original it was interesting to see how Fanny Price's and Maria Bertram's personality foibles w...
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review 1: This distracting busy mash-up of Dickens and Wilkie Collins (published in the UK under the title Tom-All-Alone's) has some of the ingredients for a better novel. Some scenes are vivid but too much of it gives the impression of being hastily written. It needed a firm editor with a...
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review 1: An interesting take on a classic. There are elements of Austen that remain but most of Mansfield Park has been imaginatively reworked to turn the former coming of age tale into a murder mystery. The redrawing of Fanny Price is perhaps the biggest change but works perfectly. She w...