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The Hidden Heart Of Emily Hudson (2010)

by Melissa Jones(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0751542806 (ISBN13: 9780751542806)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Sphere

review 1: Para começar devo dizer que este livro é e sempre será especial para mim por ser uma prenda de dois amigos trazida duma cidade que nunca visitei mas que domina o meu imaginário e que conheço e amo de filmes séries e outros livros, por isso, já é especial independentemente do seu conteúdo. Devo também dizer que desconhecia por completo esta escritora e como tal foi com curiosidade que iniciei a sua leitura, mas como sempre para dizer se gosto ou não do seu trabalho de uma forma justa terei que ler outras obras dela para emitir uma opinião válida e justa. Gostei da personagem principal mas realmente por ser produto da sua época e pela educação que era dada às mulheres nessas alturas, a transformou numa mulher ingénua, imatura e algo frivola, mas louvo a cor... moreagem dela de ir contra as convenções, e aventurar-se a ser independente (mesmo quando obviamente dependia dos desmandos do primo) em perseguição do seu sonho e dos seus ideais, e também valorizo a sua noção de amizade leal e constante tanto como com a melhor amiga como com Miss Drake, Miss Caroline. Achei algo rídicula a separação dela e do Capitão Lindsay,mas compreendo que a autora desejasse arranjar algum motivo (fraco na minha opinião) para que a vida romântica da protagonista não fosse simplista de mais... Gostei da surpresa de uma Miss Norton, com quem simpatizei apesar do seu ar inicial de mulher austera, e dos poemas de Elizabeth Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.Gostei tb das imagens de Italia mas achei pouco detalhe na descrição de Londres, Boston e Newport. Em geral gostei da história e do final tb. -----To start I have to say that this book is and will remain special for me because it was a gift brought to me by two friends that visited a city that lives in my imaginarium I have never visited but I know it from books, movies and series and for that alone makes it a very very special book for me independent of it's contence.I also must say that I'm unfamiliar to this author work so I was curious starting to read this book and I think that I can only validate a fair opinion on her and her work if I'm to read any other work of hers and I intend to do it soo. I Like the main characther but because she's a product of her time and education, she end up being, in my humble opinion, a little imature and naíve but I comend her loyal and constant fridship towards people, and her courage to seek independence and to mark off conventions, (even under her cousin's unseen grip) to chase her dreams and ambitions.I fond somewaht ridiculus the breaking up off her and Captain Lindsay, but I that the author wanted a not so simple romantic life for her caracther... I liked the surprise of a Miss Norton (my family name)with whom I simpatized, even with the initial air of severeness, and was surprise by the offer of a Elizabeth Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.I liked the Images of Italia and the rest of the location of the book, but I found the description little detailed. In sum, I liked the story and the ending also.
review 2: This novel is a puzzle to me as on the one hand, I loved the Victorian atmosphere of the author's writing, on the other, the entire book read like an outline for four or five prospective novels, all of which were dropped like participles from a sentence and left undeveloped.Point one: The first chapter makes me feel like I am to meet a spirited heroine like Anne Of Green Gables. Instead I meet a girl who is fearful of her own shadow and so worried about what others think of her, she can barely function at all.Point two: She never meets the men who show an interest in her for more than a couple of times before she promptly tells them to forget her. Yet one man who she barely knows and has only spoken to a few times, she continues to pine for. If I meet a man a few times and then he vanishes from sight, I can promise I will forget him within the week! Point three: The dark character of her cousin William, the most prominent man in her life is never developed into any depth.I do not know how this book got into publication because there is no development of romance in here and when we get to the moment the first man comes back into her life, the book slams shut, all courtship, romance developing and so on entirely skipped. There is also no development with any of the other men in this novel as they seem to pop up and disappear just as fast.Point four: I found many dispensable characters in here. I also think Emily's poor health could have been dispensed with. Readers are not looking for a Victorian character expressing herself through letters and showing signs of hysterics, a common female complaint in those days. We want a good solid romance. We want to see it developed. We want to see the characters grow in their love and at the same time develop depth. What are the motives of the darker characters in the book? Is William bisexual, gay? what is this obsession with his cousin? We never find out.Too many questions remain unanswered, too many threads not woven into a whole. I think this author should rethink this book and go back and write a real romance as this one has proved disappointing. I can not even call it a romance. less

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