08-17-2010, 05:48 AM
(08-14-2010, 09:34 PM)AliceChell Wrote: Penfeather, you are reading Carola Salisbury! I admire her/him quite a bit. I own almost all of them in hardback. I consider them a small treasure.
Yes, and I'm a bit disgruntled with her (I'll stick with one pronoun to simplify things) at the moment, as she's just committed the sin of changing location halfway through the book! E tu, Carola? It's not an unpardonable sin, but it's irksome. We were moving along so pleasantly in the Landeric estate in Cornwall, then for absolutely no good reason Salisbury yanks us away to Venice, to a new house, with a new cast of characters, completely dropping the thread of the pervious story. Yes, Venice is a beautiful city and one of the great places of the world, and we know the story thread will be taken up again later, but Salisbury should know better. Used this way, the change of environment is a weak plot device meant to promote action where the story had warned of flagging.
I am taking a break from Dark Inheritance to read Widow's Walk by Mary Bishop, which just arrived in the mail. After I finish the one I'll go back to the other.
