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Title: Secret for a Nightingale by Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Jean Plaidy, Eleanor Hibbert ISBN: 0-385-23621-2 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An Okay Book for V. Holt Fans
Comment: I just could not get into this book, and as this is not the first V. Holt book I've read, I think I will just not like her writing style.
It was just that I could not feel what the character was feeling. The story is told from the first person point of view, and instead of that making her emotions more vivid to the reader, the narrator seemed to take a detacted voice to everything. I did not feel her hatred for the "Demon Doctor," though "Anna" said she hated him, there was never any real sense that it was true. When she fell for him I didn't feel the passion. I couldn't even feel her passion for nursing. I know they were all there, but just because she said they were, and her actions vaguely reinforced it. There was never any real action in the story either. There was never a confrontation or a real climax.
The story wasn't written badly, and the idea of the story was good too. There just wasn't that something extra in the story to make it great.
All in all, the story didn't make me cry, laugh, angry, passionate, or even content. I was just indifferent to the characters, and I would frankly prefer to hate a book or its chacaters, then at least I know it touched me somehow.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of her best!
Comment: Victoria Holt really captures you in this one. She keeps you hanging on till the end wondering whom the heroine will end up with in this one. It has great historical insite too, which is not a surprise to Victoria Holt fans. In this one the heroine follows Florence Nightingale to heal soldiers and try to improve hospital conditions. She finds herself falling in love with a doctor she suspects of killing her child and ruining her husband with drugs. It is wonderful and you have to read it if you like Victoria Holt at all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't be Frightened!
Comment: When I red the synopsis for this book, I thought I shouldn't read it because I thought it would be too into the occult, and as a Christian, that wouldn't b something for me to read. Some other Christians read it, and didn't say anything bad about it so I thought I would give it a try. I'm glad I did! Don't be frightened! The occult is just mentioned, and is frowned upon. It is all right for a Christian to read!
Susanna grew up in India, but went to school in England. On her return visit, she finds Aubrey St. Clare (It is a man! I've known girls named Aubrey, but this one is a man!). They fall in love and marry back in England. Her marriage is all but shattered when she finds out Aubrey is into opium and the occult. She tries to make the marriage work, but when Aubrey's way of life causes her son to die, she leaves forever. Before she regrets it, Aubrey dies as well.
She decides to leave England and become a nurse, but she never forgives Dr. Damien Adair, the man she blames for Aubrey's downfall and her son's death. Much to her surprise, she meets up with Damien and, is it love? Could she love the man that ruined her husband and son?
This Victoria Holt book is different because the ending isn't very suspenseful, and the "bad-guy" isn't trying to hurt the heroine. Still, it is very good, like her others.
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Title: The India Fan by Victoria Holt ISBN: 0449216977 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: On the Night of the Seventh Moon by VICTORIA HOLT ISBN: 0345470389 Publisher: Fawcett Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Pride of the Peacock by Eleanor Hibbert, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Jean Plaidy ISBN: 0385122810 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub Pub. Date: 01 August, 1976 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Snare of Serpents by Victoria Holt ISBN: 0385413858 Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Demon Lover by Victoria Holt ISBN: 0002226928 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 21 November, 1988 |
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