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| Original Title: | Magic Flutes |
| ISBN: | 0142412775 (ISBN13: 9780142412770) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Romantic Novel of the Year (RoNa's) Award (1983) |
Eva Ibbotson
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.91 | 7582 Users | 590 Reviews
Details Of Books The Reluctant Heiress
| Title | : | The Reluctant Heiress |
| Author | : | Eva Ibbotson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | April 30th 2009 by Speak (first published 1982) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Historical Romance |
Representaion As Books The Reluctant Heiress
Spring, 1922Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairy-tale castle is missing its princess, and Tessa is determined to keep it that way.
But secret lives can be complicated, and when a wealthy, handsome Englishman discovers this bewitching urchin backstage, Tessa's two lives collide - and in escaping her inheritance, she finds her destiny. . .
Magic Flutes is an enchanting story of love, music and secret princesses from Eva Ibbotson.
Rating Of Books The Reluctant Heiress
Ratings: 3.91 From 7582 Users | 590 ReviewsAssess Of Books The Reluctant Heiress
Alright, I really like this author but enough is enough. I think I have read too many of her books in too short of time. Heck, I think I could write one of these books. Hmm, here goes. Impoverished adorable female heroine who, despite very bleak odds, is still the happiest, calmest, sweetest girl on the block. It doesn't matter that her parents hate her of she has no money, her beauty shines through the mess her life is in. Rich, tall, dashingly attractive man comes on the scene. Has all theI was suffering from a terrible book hangover - four DNF and one crime book I managed to read but without enjoyment. In these cases the only thing to do is to reread something pure and lovely and Eva Ibbotson always fits the bill. Her romances are all that a sweet coming of age should be, only not sickly or saccharine, but tinged with a caustic humour, a wonderful sense of place and time, rich descriptions, real and relatable heroines, tragi-comic plots, dark plots and flawed, honourable and
There's an old chocolate shop in Vienna, Altmann and Kuhne, that produces miniature boxes of the most exquisite chocolates. Watch out though - before you know it, you've demolished the entire box and you feel faintly ill. Just so with Evan Ibbotson's romantic confections. Two in a row and my teeth are beginning to hurt. On to a more substantial diet, although I expect I'll be back once I've recoveredfrom this romance-induced sugar coma.
Eva Ibbotson was one of my favourite writers as a child and it's a nostalgic treat to find one of her books that I didn't get to read. It's well plotted, well paced and the characters are appropriately and obviously divided into good and bad.
Update: I finished... actually, I skipped a lot of the book. I just couldn't get into it. And it wasn't even the random big words (see earlier rant below). I just didn't really care about these characters. And there was so much in this book that didn't seem to fit quite right or that just felt like filler. I really doubt I'll ever read anything by Eva Ibbotson again.Just a quick note... I'm only 40 pages in and I'm a bit annoyed with the author. "Vituperative" and "salubrious"? Really? She
Hehehehe...I just finished reading someone else's review of this book and no longer feel dumb in thinking that there was a superfluous of big and foreign words in this book. I eventually got too lazy to constantly check the dictionary and instead decided to just power read through the paragraphs littered with these magnanimous words. I've read previous books from this author and didn't suffer as much so I thought perhaps the author made an effort to represent the time period (1920s), the
I feel like I am in a Bad Book Rut, I need a good book asap to restore my faith in writers everywhere!!Author Eva Ibbostson is 1-1. Her book "A countess below stairs" was wonderful, I thouroughly enjoyed reading it. This book, "The Reluctant Heiress' was a flop.It took me about 200 pages of reading this one (or scanning it) to become half-way interested. The wording in this one is just too much. I know she was trying to write fitting to the time period, but I just really didn't like it. The
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