Dixie Lee McKeone (1937–2007)
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- Gangbare naam
- McKeone, Dixie Lee
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- McKeone, Dixie
McKeone, Lee
Lovelace, Jane - Geboortedatum
- 1937-02-15
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2007-03-27
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
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- Werken
- 18
- Leden
- 647
- Populariteit
- #39,006
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 32
- Talen
- 1
After greatly enjoying Jane Lovelace's Eccentric Lady, I was quite excited to read Rolissa, which I had to request from another library. I was even considering tracking down some of the Regency romances published under the author's real name, Dixie Lee McKeone. Now I'm not so sure. Not only was the hero completely unlikable here, often becoming enraged at minor "offenses" on the heroine's part - when Rolissa draws back a little, for instance, during their first meeting, and responds to his cold hauteur in kind, he labels her a "rag-mannered rustic" - but the narrative itself is poorly constructed.
The first two chapters alternate between Rolissa and Carson's perspective, before focusing exclusively on Rolissa's experience. This is necessary, of course, in order for Lovelace to create the misunderstanding and "mystery" that form the crux of her novel, but it made me wonder why the lone chapter from the hero's perspective was included at all. The prose itself is unremarkable, skimming along at the surface of the story, never really allowing the reader to become involved with any of the characters. One feels as if Rolissa's colorful aunt, Lady Jennie Barnstowe, or her two friends, those amiable quarrelers, Mr. Jamison and the Viscout Tulane, should elicit more interest, but Lovelace never seems to develop them fully. Finally, I was able to guess the guilty party from the time of the second "accident," and found the dénouement contrived and unconvincing.
With a hero that snaps and snarls at the heroine at every opportunity, a mystery whose solution was readily apparent to me, and a cast of secondary characters that failed to illicit my sympathy, I was hard pressed to finish Rolissa, and I don't recommend it to my fellow readers.… (meer)