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Patrice Kindl

Författare till Goose Chase

7+ verk 2,231 medlemmar 88 recensioner 3 favoritmärkta

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Inkluderar namnen: Patrice Kindl, Patricia Kindl

Verk av Patrice Kindl

Goose Chase (2001) 624 exemplar
Keeping the Castle (2012) 492 exemplar
The Woman in the Wall (1997) 465 exemplar
Owl In Love (1993) 365 exemplar
Lost in the Labyrinth (2002) 167 exemplar
Don't You Trust Me? (2016) 22 exemplar

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Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 52 exemplar

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Fieldnotes:
Yorkshire, England, Regency

1 Mercenary (By Necessity) Beautiful Teen Girl Seeking Wealthy Spouse
2 Awful, Miserly Stepsisters (Cinderella Style)
1 Charming Heiress Artist with Smallpox Scars

Unsuitable Suitors
1 Handsome Baron with an Unfortunate Name
1 Intelligent Aristocrat with Excellent Dancing Skills
1 Brusque, Preoccupied, Financially-Minded Young Man Short on Social Niceties but Large of Heart
Meddling Matchmaking Oblivious to Everyone's True Feelings Ostensibly For Their Own Good

1 Crumbling Castle
2 Plot Moppets
1 Adorable and Persistent Dog
Scandalous Reading Material!

1 Gorse Bush Whose Buzzy Occupants Do Not Appreciate Dramatically Morbid Poetry Recitations and Who Express Their Critique Through Stinging
1 Near Drowning
1 Large, Barely Sentient Cloud of Curious Sheep
Laundry - A Novel Experience for a Handkerchief
Calamity!!!

The Short Version:
Kind of I Capture the Castle meets Austen (though perhaps more Emma than P&P).
We have our beautiful teen heroine determined to save the family fortune by marrying well, but scaring off suitors by being too forthright. We have a castle that keeps reminding me of the one in Disney's The Sword in the Stone with its crumbling and leaking (no cantankerous owls, though, more's the pity). We have a handsome aristocrat and his tactlessly brusque cousin (in TRADE!) and terrible selfish stepsisters. It is all fairly predictable in a very enjoyable sort of way, and the phrasing (particularly the gorse bush scene) made me laugh. Happy to keep this one around.
… (mer)
½
 
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Caramellunacy | 35 andra recensioner | Mar 8, 2024 |
On the regency romance scale, this ranks smack in the middle between [a:Julia Quinn|63898|Julia Quinn|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1210188891p2/63898.jpg] and [b:Pride and Prejudice|1885|Pride and Prejudice|Jane Austen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320399351s/1885.jpg|3060926]. It's fun and quick to read like a JQ, but it's also refined and observant like P&P.

Our heroine Althea starts out a little ruthless. At 17, her mission in life is to marry a rich man to save her family from near poverty. As is common in books likes these, a handsome young man in possession of a good fortune moves into Althea's neighborhood and the chase ensues. Add in Althea's wicked-ish stepsisters, a ridiculous crumbling castle, and some excellent verbal sparring and you've got a truly enjoyable tale worthy of comparisons to Jane Austen.… (mer)
 
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LibrarianDest | 35 andra recensioner | Jan 3, 2024 |
This was kind of not super intelligent. Like at all. I was so excited by the premise, but I've read books similar to this that were far better done. Too many loose strings and not enough at stake. And the ending, just what?
 
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whakaora | Mar 5, 2023 |
Althea’s family’s home is falling into disrepair and the only way to save it is if she marries someone wealthy.

Initially I found Althea’s narration twee and irritating, but I liked her more as I got to judge her by what she does and not just by what she says about herself, and I became even more interested in her story once I realised that Althea’s an unreliable narrator. She’s not unreliable in a dramatic or malicious way, she’s just a somewhat sheltered seventeen year old. But I enjoyed reading between the lines and speculating about the things Althea misses. This ended up being a lot of fun.

The world, at least the provincial, day-to-day world in which I live, does not honour those who make so much as those who own. To be a wealthy landowner of good family is to belong to the most respected class of people in England, and therefore in the world as a whole. Yet when we look back upon the past it is the artists and thinkers whose names are remembered and whose legacy is honoured, not those who are merely wealthy and well-bred.
… (mer)
 
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Herenya | 35 andra recensioner | Jan 13, 2023 |

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Verk
7
Även av
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Medlemmar
2,231
Popularitet
#11,498
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
88
ISBN
79
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3
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