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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Lily Bard finds murder and romance. (  ) raizel | Sep 30, 2009 |  A good read (  ) Harrod | Jun 20, 2009 | I am very glad I took the lead from a fellow LibraryThing-er's encouragement and gave the Lily Bard mysteries another shot (thanks Tad!); Shakespeare's Champion did not fail to deliver. Harris' style is comfortable and unassuming, and she really shows her strengths as a popular fiction writer with this series. While the events of Shakespeare's Champion - like Lily's own history - are rather extraordinary, Harris doesn't try to over-sensationalize the plot, and instead lets extreme actions and events speak for themselves. Harris shows confidence in her readers by allowing them to respond in their own way, without abusing literary devices that would only function to shove specific emotional reactions down their throats. Like much of Harris' work, Shakespeare's Champion does not shy away from "hot topics" such as rape and racial relations; the plot of the novel itself focuses on several race-related murders and terrorist events. The book is refreshingly unapologetic, and maintains a kind of grace when dealing with the uglier side of a community. This is not to say that Shakespeare's Champion is overly-deep; the book is still a popular novel, and is intended to entertain through a sequence of extraordinary events and personal conquests. Lily has turned out to be a very interestingly developed character, and I am looking forward to reading the next installment in the series, Shakespeare's Christmas. ( ) Luxx | Jun 12, 2009 | I enjoyed – if such a thing can be enjoyed! – the inter-racial tensions here. It read as both a plausible, if reprehensible!, scenario, whilst also highlighting the absolute idiocy of the supremacist point of view. I didn’t (correctly) spot whodunit this time because I followed a false trail – and actually I love it when there are false trails convincing enough to get me! The need for the character of Jared/Jack didn’t 100% work for me but I understand that this was a convenient way to introduce a new romantic lead so eh, whatever… I’ll forgive quite a bit for a good romantic subplot. (  ) ph8 | Feb 23, 2009 | This book was better than the first "Shakespeare's Landlord". I really like the character of Lily and the mystery wasn't bad. I enjoy most of the characters and Lily's community for the most part. This series is far too dark to be considered a cozy although a lot of people seem to classify it as one. There wasn't any great suprises here; nor was it boring. I'd like to see Lily get some of her happiness back; she just seems like a fairly unhappy person...I understand her background and the reason for it is logical but it'd be nice to see some good things happen to her. I wish I could say more about this story but in my opinion it was good, not great. There is nothing specifically bad about it, nor anything amazingly positive either. ( ) pacey1927 | Nov 17, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0425213102, Mass Market Paperback)No steel magnolia, Lily Bart is one blunt, tough Southern woman--a tiny, karate-chopping, bodybuilding dynamo who's come to Shakespeare, Arkansas, to restart her life after a series of traumatic events just hinted at in this second novel in Charlaine Harris's series (after Shakespeare's Landlord). When she slips into her gym for an early morning workout and finds Del Packard with a barbell across his throat, she doesn't think for more than a second that it's an accident. Not when it's the third death in a couple of months in a town hardly big enough for its own WalMart. Then the blue broadsheets with thinly veiled hints of white supremacist activity start turning up under the windshield wipers of every car on Main Street. Lily's a relative newcomer to Shakespeare, but as a cleaning woman for the local landed gentry, she's privy to many secrets that most outsiders never learn. When a handsome stranger keeps turning up at the scene of an increasingly bizarre series of events, including a burglary at one of her regular clients and a bombing in a black church, she suspects he may be more than an innocent bystander. Which is too bad, because he stirs up desires that Lily hasn't felt for any man for a very long time. Lily Bard is a complex woman who embodies many of the contradictions of the modern South--its dark side as well as its charm--and this suspenseful, deftly written novel will send new fans scrambling to read its predecessor. --Jane Adams(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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