Considering that our country has been tipped on its head since the election, why would I choose a book with a narcissistic, power hungry, vindictive antagonist? Well, I was hoping for a happily-ever-after. I was hoping for the triumph of good over evil. I was hoping love would transcend all the bad. I was hoping for a storyline that would put a smile on my face, tug at my heart, and restore my faith in good, honest people. Done, done, and done!
New York. 1899. Wealth. Millionaire Row. Proper society. Enter Mathilda “Tillie” Pembroke. Intelligent, curious, socially inept. Patent medicines...opium, morphine, and heroine touted as non-addictive. Bran Stoker’s Dracula captured readers’ imagination. Murder with a list of suspects keeps Tillie busy while she fails to fight her addictions. I’m always on the lookout for a happily-ever-after ending, but…
Vampires, drugs, and money, this novel tied a bit of history with a great mystery!
I was in need of a feel good novel with a twist...and I found it in spades! A young woman trying to find herself with the help of her dead grandmother’s journals. Women with special gifts. A double murder. Life beyond the family farm. Romance. I wanted the murder solved as much as I wanted the protagonist, Lizzie, to fall in love with her neighbor. I wanted to hate the town who didn’t understand the women of Moon Girl Farm, just because they were different. I wanted Lizzie to find herself, reconcile with her mother, and live happily-ever-after. Having just finished the novel...I feel sooo much better now!
OMG! OMG! OMG! This novel was like a car wreck, you want to look away, but you just can’t. Set in Mexico in the 1950s, it wasn’t what I was expecting, at all. It was dark, foreboding, creepy, EVIL. But, the characters…”would cling to hope. Hope that the world could be remade, kinder and sweeter.” (301) Hope that good would triumph over evil. NOT to be read alone, in a dark house, on a cold, foggy night...just sayin’.
