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Review: Outlander

September 20, 2010 Whitney Review 12 Comments
Review: Outlander

I’m going to make this short and sweet.  I did not like this book.  At times, it felt more like a harlequin romance rather than historical fiction or fantasy.   Hype can be a good thing but in this case it set my expectations too high so I think that was part of my dislike […]

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Review: Rebecca

July 15, 2010 Whitney Review 13 Comments
Review: Rebecca

Review Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier is the gothic novel of an unnamed girl. The story begins with this girl as a paid companion to a Mrs. Van Hopper.  Mrs. Van Hopper likes to hobnob with the rich and famous  and after spotting Maxim de Winter, owner of the wonderful Manderly.  (I should also mention […]

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Book Review: Pride and Prejudice

July 8, 2010 Whitney Review 4 Comments
Book Review: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice I feel is the ultimate love story.  Our heroine, Elizabeth Bennet is pretty, witty and wise with a great sense of time and humor.  Mr. Darcy is rude, proud and very disagreeable, even if he is worth ten thousand a year.    Both cannot stand each other.  So what makes this the ultimate […]

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Book Review: Sense and Sensibility

June 9, 2010 Whitney Review 12 Comments
Book Review: Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility is a novel of the Dashwoods. Mrs. Dashwood, a silly women focused on acquiring a comfortable fortune and abode along with marrying off her daughters well.  Elinor, a very sensible girl who always does the logical or right thing. Marianne who unlike her sister follows her heart and lives in the moment.  […]

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No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

February 14, 2010 Whitney Review 1 Comment
No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

Impressions While Reading No Angel by Penny Vincenzi is a a page turner and what I felt to be an accurate account of that time of history.  Penny Vincenzi references the woman’s suffrage movement,  medicine, social affairs and the after effects of war.  There are very few cliff-hanger at the end of No Angel as most […]

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Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

January 13, 2010 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Review In Charlaine Harris’ first Sookie Stackhouse novel I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between Twilight and Dead Until Dark.  In Dead Until Dark, Sookie  has a “disability” she can read people’s minds making her somewhat of an oddity. This gift excludes the “undead” better known as vampires. This also happens  to include her […]

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