I figured she'd at least turn out to be a bastard daughter, but nope. (And being an exact duplicate of someone you're not related to? Yeah, that stretches belief. You can't keep seeing through manipulation & still be surprised when you're treated like crap.yet she was. Miranda herself had quite a journey, but she was dense & not particularly interesting. There was no legit reason for Thorne & Gregory to be so devoted. Sauron in LotR), otherwise their villainy is cardboard & obnoxious.as was the case here. Even the cruelest villain requires *something* sympathetic (aside from those rare 'pure evil' characters, e.g. Indeed, the last 150-odd pgs are easily the best of the book, & would have been better in an overall product half the length.Īside from the meandering descriptions - well-written, yes, but still annoyingly long-winded - the biggest flaw is that Amanda has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. That said, the original adult version is way too long, lingering (needlessly?) over endless descriptions of clothes, furniture, scenery, architecture, housekeeping, & social issues of late Edwardian England. The central topics - abusive mistresses, social/class upheaval, sexual manipulation, bigamy, & the ridiculous loss of life on the Titanic - wouldn't fit properly in a mid-grade frame. Apparently there's an abridged middle-grade version of this novel, & I'm sure it's horrible.
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