Lady Julia Grey (7 books in series)
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review 1: I loved the development of Brisbane and Julia into married life. I was thrilled with the growing love between them and 10 pages from the end the entire series is ruined for me. I get that Julia likes the excitement of working the cases but it is completely ridiculous to me that...
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review 1: I liked this book when I read it but enjoyed it even more listening to the audiobook. Ellen Archer does an excellent job portraying all of the characters; she has a wide variety of voices for both gentlemen and ladies. I think that this book is perhaps the most romantic of the se...
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review 1: Lady Julia's travels take her from the wuthering heights of Yorkshire in the last book to the Himalayas in this one, with an idyll in the Mediterranean in between. The Indian village setting is a character in itself, with its tea plantations and large houses and rising elevations...
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review 1: This book is a real step up from volume 2 in the series. The multiplicity of secrets and motives, and the wonderfully tangled web they weave together, makes this book intriguing from beginning to end. Lady Julia has compared Nicholas to Heathcliff more than once, and this book pl...
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review 1: I didn't love the previous entry in the series, but this book restored my love for the it. The mystery was interesting and kept me guessing, the tone of the book was a bit lighter than the previous book's tone, and the characters, as always, were great. If you were disappointed w...
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review 1: 3.75. About half way through the book the interaction with Julia and Brisbane was more than I expected. For the first book post marriage I did not expect their dynamic to change but I wanted a more detailed picture of their domestic life. The pace of the mystery was painfully sl...
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review 1: I love the characters. I enjoyed the growth of Lady Julia. I tolerated the drawn out relationship dance but I have grown tired of these mysterious on estates. Boring Scottish crumbling estates where there is no momentum to the story beyond wandering the moors talking to the few...