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Bezig met laden... The Countess of Praguedoor Stephen Weeks
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) phyllis2779 | May 16, 2018 |  I had to remind myself several times that this book relates the beginning of Trixie's life as a spy/detective because her upper-class snobbery and some of her hare-brained stunts exasperated me greatly. (The stunts mainly because they showed a lack of common sense, but then--as I kept reminding myself-- she's led a sheltered life.) I also found the plot to be overly convoluted, to the point where I began to lose interest, but the redeeming features saved the day. What redeeming features? The humor, for one, made me smile. The second redeeming feature was the secondary cast, in particular her servants, Müller and Sabine. This is where actually working with those two and seeing them as human beings rather than pieces of furniture makes Trixie begin to change for the better. The servants' willingness to work with her on her clandestine mission shows more than just employee obedience, too. Once the countess began to grow into her chosen role of spy and detective, the reading became much more enjoyable, and I do look forward to her next adventure. (  ) cathyskye | Sep 4, 2017 | However, in the course of investigating that small mystery, Trixie stumbles on a far more serious and deadly puzzle that has her disguising herself as a man, hopping a train to follow the conspirators, suspected of murder, and even sailing to England to foil an international plot. The Countess of Prague was delightfully complicated, yet fair. We knew the essential clues and when they began to fall into place, the revelations came one after the other…and built naturally and logically. Trixie never read something and thought it was very interesting and filed it away without us knowing what it was. This is important in a series, in my opinion. I could never love Nero Wolfe because of those undisclosed vital clues. I like the way Trixie refines her methods of detection, learning as she goes along, daring new things. She is not fearless, and she is a lady of fashion, but she will much about if necessary. It was altogether a delightfully complex romp. Trixie is a bit of an unlikely heroine, but any woman of independence action is unlikely in historical mysteries. I do like Weeks efforts to show her shifting her worldview through exposure to the waifs she has hired as her irregulars, though she doesn’t use the term. She learns secrets about her family that also broaden her worldview, though I suspect she’s unaware of similar secrets closer to home…perhaps in book two, five, six, or ten. I look forward to them eagerly. The Countess of Prague will be released September 5th. I received an advance e-galley from the publisher through NetGalley. The Countess of Prague at Poisoned Pen Press Stephen Weeks at Poisoned Pen Press. https://tonstantweaderreviews.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/9781464208447/ (  ) Tonstant.Weader | Aug 21, 2017 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: The Countess of Prague is the wonderfully exciting introduction to Beatrice von Falklenburg, known to her intimates as Trixie, who will lead us from Prague through Europe and occasionally beyond on a ten-book set of investigations that begins in 1904 and finishes in 1914. The assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo that summer effectively ended the Old Europe into which she was born to a noble Czech father and an English mother. Through the lens of Trixie, whose own journey from pampered aristocrat (albeit in a polite and impoverished marriage) to a degree of emancipation has an exciting yet humorous and sympathetic dynamic, we witness stirring events and societal shifts. Trixie begins her new career at 28. She's leading a society life and growing apart from her husband although she is as yet too conventional to take a lover. When the brutalized body of an old man once under the command of her military uncle is fished from the Vltava, she takes to the role of a detective and finds solace in it, mixing with ease with kings and princes, but never losing touch with ordinary men and women with whom her new role often puts her in contact. Investigating alters the formality of her relations with her servants and with public officials as we see when she encounters her butler in an unexpected role (and place) and then goes undercover (as a young man) on a train journey to Paris and London. Eventually, liaising with various officials, she arrives at Marienbad, the famous Czech spa, where Edward VII of England and his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm have staged a surprising May meeting....and it is here that the mystery unfolds. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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