Victoria Holt – Cannonball Read 17

How to Fall in Love With a Peacock

The Pride of the Peacock by Victoria Holt

September 16, 2019 by Classic Leave a Comment

There are slow burn books and then there is this one where nothing of importance happens for a good 70 percent of the book and then you just have an ineffectual heroine through most of the story who somehow saves herself in the end by talking. Definitely not one of Holt’s best. With a hero that I was rooting against and then the setting moving to Australia, this book just had too much that in the end didn’t work for it. “The Pride of the […]

Woman Has Choice Between Man Who Treats Her Badly and a Boring But Nice Guy, Guess Who She Chooses?

March 2, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

Sorry for the long title, but this whole book irked the life out of me. I get that Holt is writing Gothic romances, but she always seems to take the worst parts of Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre) and Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) and uses that to make the male heroes in these stories. I think Heathcliff was terrible by the way for anyone that is ready to jump at me in the comments. I think due to the last book and this one I am going […]

I Am Plain, But Still Stuck

January 26, 2017 by Classic 6 Comments

I don’t even know how to start this review. I really enjoyed the other Victoria Holt book I read, Mistress of Mellyn, but this one, no. A thousand times no. There was sexism, classicism, racism, I am sure I am forgetting some -ism. And yes, I do get that the setting that this book takes place in is just echoing what these times were like, it still doesn’t mean I have to like it. But more than that, the main character Drusilla sucks. She does. […]

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Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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