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The Sleeping Partner (2011)

by Madeleine E. Robins(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0984436251 (ISBN13: 9780984436255)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Plus One Press

series

Sarah Tolerance

review 1: The third book in the Sarah Tolerance series and well worth waiting for (although I'm glad I re-read the first two in order to reacquaint myself with Sarah's world). In this outing, Sarah searches for for a missing girl, all too aware of the parallels between this girl's disappearance and her own elopement. New developments within her familial relationships, as well as a potential romance, add depth to this story.
review 2: I continue to think that Sarah Tolerance is an interesting and well-written character, and I enjoyed the opportunity this book provided to find out more about her past and her family. I've mused before, in my reviews of the other books in this series, about the choice the author has made to change some seemingly inexplicable and inconsequ... moreential things about the history of the Regency period. I've come to the conclusion that the minor changes to the royal succession process are meant as a signal to the reader/justification for the fact that this history is slightly different from ours in other ways, such as the tradition of "Fallen" women taking obviously fake names that signify their status, and the existence of Sarah Tolerances's mixed-sex club, where she conducts much of her business. I still think that the author hasn't done quite enough with the liberty writing an alternate history should provide. For example, there really isn't much difference between the social positions of "fallen/Fallen" women in either the real or imagined version of this time period. Overwhelmingly, they are reduced either to prostitution or some kind of servitude/penance at the hands of religious zealots. Sarah is the only one we meet who is pursuing a career in any other field. Who are the other women in her mixed sex club? What are their occupations/reasons for joining? Without this kind of world-building, the minor differences in the historical record just seem like a way to shoehorn a female character with more modern sensibilities into a historical setting than like a true alternate history. less

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