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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I’m enjoying this series as the books are short, fast paced with a fun wit throughout. They are at times very clever and this novel is no different. A perfect read for a lazy day. ( ) Yeah...no, not for me. I quite liked the beginning, with plain Jane and beautiful Euphemia, and the crowd of servants at the House for a Season. But as the story developed, it got sillier and sillier. Jane is amazingly young for an 18-year-old - she "hasn't yet put her hair up" at the beginning of the book, and that's how she behaves almost throughout, like a child. There are at least three stories here: Jane and her courtship (which goes wrong in some very convenient ways - mis-delivered messages and gossip that flares and dies with suspiciously precise timing (otherwise known as author fiat)); the mystery Jane is pursuing, which also produces clues with suspicious convenience - and is "solved" by confession, without any real explanation for what clues Jane comes up with; and the servants at 67 Clarges St. I might have liked their story best - I thought I would, at the beginning - but it very quickly devolves into multiple love triangles. This is the _second_ book in this series - what happened with them in the first one? They can't have had all these unrequited love problems, or they wouldn't have been as firmly together as they were at the beginning of this one. Or maybe they did and the author just reset them for this book. Overall, not good - way too many convenient events as the only real plot drivers. I thought I'd read something else by this author and liked it, but I don't see it. I do have one other book by her, and I'll try it - but if it's like this one, I won't bother to read anything else she's written. Back again to 67 Clarges Street we go, in this second volume of Marion Chesney's "A House for the Season" series. Rainbird the butler and the other servants are still in service, looking forward to the arrival of the latest tenants: a hen-pecked ex-naval officer, his nagging wife, and two daughters. Who will attract the interest of the fashionable elite first: Euphemia the eldest with beauty on her side, or her younger sister, 'plain' Jane? More fun and intrigue is in store for the residents of "A House for the Season". no reviews | add a review
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A house in London's fashionable West End is the setting for romance, mystery, and danger in this Regency-set tale by a New York Times-bestselling author . . . Number 67 Clarges Street--a good address in London's elegant Mayfair with a dubious past and a lovably eccentric staff--is where the Hart sisters are taking up residence for the season. Beautiful and socially ambitious Euphemia and her younger sister, Jane, enter a world of balls, coming-out parties, and courtship with the hope of finding suitable husbands. But Number 67 has been deemed unlucky due to a long history of tragedy, including the mysterious death of a young and desirable past tenant named Clara. "Little Jane," constantly overshadowed by her gorgeous sister, soon turns away from the London social scene and concentrates on solving the mystery behind Clara's death. Her search leads to a discovery of danger, deceit, and romance as she works alongside the eligible and dashing Lord Tregarthan to unravel the baffling case . . . Originally published under the name Marion Chesney, Plain Jane is a delightful story of romance and suspense by the much-loved author of the Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series. No library descriptions found. |
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