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Baroness (2012)

by Susan May Warren(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

160936631X (ISBN13: 9781609366315)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Summerside Press

series

Daughters of Fortune

review 1: The second book in the Daughters of Fortune series, Baroness picks up with the daughters of Esme and Jinx introduced in book one. It is now the 1920s, and Lilly (Esme's daughter) and Rose (Jinx's daughter) find themselves experiencing the pangs of young womenhood as they fight against wanting freedom from the life their parents want for them. Both make unwise choices of young men, but neither really learns from the mistakes. Lilly ends up running away and becoming a wing walker in a traveling airshow. Rose wants the life of a star but ends up becoming involved with Cesar Napoli, a mobster in New York City. Both go through much torment and soul-searching before finding out what is really important to them, hopefully before it is too late. I liked this book better than... more the first one. The rebellious young women frustrated me at times, possibly because I'm not in that category anymore, but the story rang true. Maybe becoming a wing walker was a bit far-fetched, but there were women who did this and it is not a story line that usually pops up in a novel. The story is a bit melodramatic and at times "preachy" although it is a Christian fiction book so that is to be expected. However, I will read the third installment, Duchess, as it follows Rose through more of her life.
review 2: Rosie and Lilly are cousins who, at the start of this novel are in Paris each longing for what they don't have; Rosie for the freedom to be a star on the stage and marry whom she would like and Lilly to go back to her ranch in Montana. Both are children of money and privilege and yet both feel constrained by the life they feel they are being forced to live. Being young ladies of seventeen or so they, of course, know everything and their parents cannot possibly understand that the times they are a'changin' and things are just not done they way they were back then.The book moves from Paris to New York and then to the Midwest as Rosie and Lilly try to shake the family bonds they feel bind them so tightly. I did not quite understand the dynamic of the almost hatred these girls had for their families. Perhaps if I had read the first book in the series I might have had a better understanding, I don't know but it seemed to be there simply to send these two off on their adventures. Adventures that they seemed to survive quite well despite being fairly pampered young women of money. Little was discussed of how they managed to have enough money to live but long strands of pearls seem to be an ongoing theme. And neither girl ends up or ever was a Baroness so the title baffles me.It took me a bit to get involved in the story but once I did I found it to be a fast read - I ended up finishing it in one day. I can't say that I cared for Rosie at all. Lilly was a more well rounded character. The parents were there to provide a sounding board and or maybe I should say dart board for the girls' reasons for doing what they did. The book had little happiness in it and it does not leave much hope for the next chapter as the Great Depression is looming. less

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