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Title: A Christmas Journey by ANNE PERRY ISBN: 0-345-46673-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Delightful Victorian Mystery
Comment: Just in time for Christmas, for the fans of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery series, Anne Perry has constructed a delightful Victorian mystery featuring one of its more interesting characters, Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould.
Lady Vespasia is entertaining her highborn friends at Applecross for a holiday weekend of games, good food and romance, when one of her guests commits suicide --- the victim of the waspish tongue of another. The group is stunned and outraged and demands some sort of revenge. At the urging of her good friend, Omegus Jones, Vespasia suggests to the somewhat less than recalcitrant harpy that perhaps she should atone for her foul deed with an unusual act of expiation. In front of the gathered group, she suggests that she should embark on the long and possibly dangerous journey to northern Scotland to inform the victim's mother of her daughter's sad demise. Not only that, but she should bring the grieving mother back to attend.
In order to make certain this task of medieval origins is completed, Vespasia offers to accompany her friend on the journey. Vespasia, her friend, the victim and her mother are revealed to have secrets in their pasts that come to light as the journey progresses. Perhaps the suicide is something more than meets the eye.
Perry spins a tale of intrigue lavishly adorned with Victoriana and moral conundrums. One almost wishes that expiation were a way of meting out deserved punishment in our times.
--- Reviewed by Roz Shea
Rating: 2
Summary: Weak story
Comment: It's Christmas time and guests have gathered in the Berkshire countryside house of Applecross for a weekend of Christmas cheer. Unfortunately for one guest, a cutting remark made by another sent her to suicide. In order not to be socially ostracized the young woman who made the remark that caused the suicide embarks on a journey to Scotland to deliver a letter to the deceased mother.
I am usually not a big fan of the books written for Christmas by best-selling authors. The prime purpose of most of these books seems to be to cash in on the Christmas dollars people are willing to spend. I had high hopes for this book because I am a big fan of Anne Perry. It started with promise with one of the interesting secondary characters in the Thomas Pitt series, Vespasia Cumming-Gould. The story takes place when Vespasia is in her early thirties instead of the more advanced years of the Pitt series. I thought we would have some good character development and backstory for Vespasia, but instead the character portraits were superficial. The plot was not only rather ludicrous, but weak. Thankfully it's a short book with only 180 pages and wide margins. Save your money and read or re-read any of the excellent books in the Thomas Pitt series or William Monk series.
Rating: 1
Summary: Boring and disappointing
Comment: A Christmas Journey is a very disappointing book with a very misleading title. This is my first experience with any of Anne Perry's books, and it was a big effort to even finish this book. After finishing the book, I can't believe that I wasted my time even reading it.
The story is set "around" Christmas time and has nothing to do with a "Christmas" story at all. The characters are extremely shallow without any depth, the book jacket's hint of a murder and mystery do not materialize at all, and there were many questions left unanswered and I would constantly ask myself, "what....."? Story lines did not connect and the plot did not easily flow.
The entire story was unrealistic, bordering on horrible fantasy, as well as lacking in substance and depth. Not a book that I would recommend to anyone.
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Title: The Shifting Tide (PERRY, ANNE) by ANNE PERRY ISBN: 0345440099 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: No Graves As Yet: A Novel of World War I by Anne Perry ISBN: 0345456521 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Murder Room by P.D. JAMES ISBN: 1400041414 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Seven Dials by ANNE PERRY ISBN: 0345440080 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Come Armageddon by Anne Perry ISBN: 044101089X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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