The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams narrated
by, Kathleen McInerney
I so wanted to like this book, the description sounded like
something I would really like but this one fell short for me. I won this book
from librarything early reviewers but had a hard time getting into it so got the
audio hoping it would be better but for over half of the book all I wanted was
for it to be over.
I love dual storylines in historical fiction and that was what
I was expecting but this book is Romance, lots of sex (very descriptive) and
once you get through that there is a little bit of a historical fiction
storyline but not enough to save this one, IMHO. Also the characters are all
pretty much unlikable and the whole stupid romance in the 1964 storyline is
ridicules they fell in love in 5 minutes?? Give me a break! This book may have
been better served if it just told Violet’s storyline because Vivian was
annoying and her whole storyline revolved around this convoluted romance with
someone she met and supposedly fell in love with in an afternoon.
Violet’s storyline started out strong then dwindled into idiocy,
with many unbelievable things happening and I wanted more of the actual story
of how …( no spoilers) than just the whole romance crap.
And the ending was all tied up in a little bow that made me
throw-up a little in mouth, it was so saccharine.
Kathleen McInerney’s narration was very well done but couldn’t
save me from wanting this book to end!
I may be in the minority here, this book has gotten a lot of
buzz but, don’t be fooled by the historical fiction moniker this is straight up
romance and not a good one!
2 Stars (barely)
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