Leila Rasheed, Cinders and Sapphires
This was my indulgence read for the week. Set in early 19th
C. Edwardian England, this book seems to be a young adult version of Downton
Abbey, replete with housemaids with extraordinary dreams (Rose wants to compose
music), beautiful if antagonistic (step) sisters, a handsome dissolute son and
heir (with his own romantic entanglements and a secret he desperately wants to
hide), a handsome but ineligible suitor for Ava (the main character, who longs
to study at Oxford) and a wide ranging cast of characters. Very much ala
Downton Abbey, the story is soapy and fun—as long as you’re willing to sustain
a certain suspension of belief.
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