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Post by omega on Dec 27, 2016 22:40:30 GMT
One could always through in a disguise, whether magical or not. Soap operas are known for having access to amazing disguises, almost as if the disguise was a totally different person... Either that or the majority of the characters are pretty imperceptive to them. True, but Cassandra's wig didn't fool Barnabas or Vicki for long.
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Post by ericlang on Jan 4, 2017 20:16:45 GMT
I guess I shouldn't have skipped Wolf Moon Rising because the ending to this book left me baffled. Was Victoria's parentage revealed in Wolf Moon Rising? This books spends most of its time connecting Victoria to a gypsy clan then all of a sudden at the very end she identifies Elizabeth as her mother. I thought I must have missed a crucial chapter somewhere.
I usually don't mind the liberties Lara Parker takes with the TV show (I've read Angelique's Descent and The Salem Branch) but I don't understand the point of making Victoria a TV reporter and the contradiction of what actually happened to her the first time she returned from 1796 seemed strange and unnecessary.
Also, how old was Magda by 1946? She had to be in her 50s in 1897, right?
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Post by Zagreus on Jan 5, 2017 17:30:46 GMT
I guess I shouldn't have skipped Wolf Moon Rising because the ending to this book left me baffled. Was Victoria's parentage revealed in Wolf Moon Rising? This books spends most of its time connecting Victoria to a gypsy clan then all of a sudden at the very end she identifies Elizabeth as her mother. I thought I must have missed a crucial chapter somewhere. The stuff with Liz's journal certainly makes more sense if you've read Wolf Moon Rising. I usually don't mind the liberties Lara Parker takes with the TV show (I've read Angelique's Descent and The Salem Branch) but I don't understand the point of making Victoria a TV reporter and the contradiction of what actually happened to her the first time she returned from 1796 seemed strange and unnecessary. I commented on this a bit earlier, but the first few chapter really do read like a different story, with different plot seeds and setups than the rest of the ensuing novel. It's a bit confusing. Once you get past that it's fine, but it did take me a couple tries and a pad of paper to sort out what was going on there in the opening of the book.
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Post by joehart1962 on Jan 6, 2017 4:56:09 GMT
I guess I shouldn't have skipped Wolf Moon Rising because the ending to this book left me baffled. Was Victoria's parentage revealed in Wolf Moon Rising? No, but Elizabeth's great love affair was one of the major subplots of the novel, and that leads to the conclusion of Heiress. I wouldn't have understood the ending of Heiress if I had skipped WMR either! By all means go back and read it -- it's Parker's richest and most complex DS novel to date and my personal favorite among her work. There's something HORRIBLE in the basement at Collinwood .... shudder!!! Heiress reminded me too much of a Marilyn Ross novel. You could see the "surprises" coming a mile away. Still, even middling DS is better than no DS at all.
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Post by Zagreus on Jan 7, 2017 18:07:11 GMT
Heiress reminded me too much of a Marilyn Ross novel. You could see the "surprises" coming a mile away. Still, even middling DS is better than no DS at all. Now, I wouldn't have called Heiress "middling". It's certainly less complex and more straightforward than the previous book, but it's still good! I'm curious about your comment though. I haven't read any of the Ross books, are you intimating that they're about the same quality as this?
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Post by Trace on Jan 8, 2017 4:21:27 GMT
Joe will certainly answer for himself but I think he's referring to the formulaic, predictable format of that genre. Let's face it, none of the Ross books will be remembered as great literature of the 20th century, but that was never their intent. They were almost like Harlequin romances with a Gothic spin. However each of them, in its own way, brought something rather quaint and lovely to the whole DS mythos.
I haven't read "Heiress..." yet, but will get to it soon. I won't be comparing it to "WMR" or anything that came before. I'm sure I'll find it unique and wonderful. If it makes a few snowy, cold New England winter nights a little warmer, the way Lara's other books AND all the Ross books did, it will be well worth it.
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Post by joehart1962 on Jan 9, 2017 6:39:20 GMT
I haven't read any of the Ross books, are you intimating that they're about the same quality as this? Lara's is better written. But the plot is very familiar to anyone who's read the Ross novels.
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Post by Zagreus on Jan 23, 2017 16:03:18 GMT
So.... any word on an audio reading of this?
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Post by coldlazarou on Jan 24, 2017 12:31:40 GMT
For those who've read it: what's the chronological placement for this*? Is it still the early '70s like Angelique's Descent & The Salem Branch?
(*I should probably be worried that this is my automatic go-to phrasing, rather than "when's it set?"...)
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Post by Zagreus on Jan 24, 2017 15:48:09 GMT
For those who've read it: what's the chronological placement for this*? Is it still the early '70s like Angelique's Descent & The Salem Branch? (*I should probably be worried that this is my automatic go-to phrasing, rather than "when's it set?"...) It's set around six months after Wolf Moon Rising, according to the notes I took while reading through it, so around June or July of 1972.
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