The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly is just a jam-packed mixture of historical fiction and romance with a wholesome dose of adventure. The ultimate installment in the "Rose Trilogy" is released by Hyperion on August 2, 2011.
Called by The Washington Post Book World as "a master of pacing and plot," Donnelly paints with a vivid palette of espionage, blackmail, steamy romance, exotic places, women's suffrage and politics. She is a born storyteller.
Drink mint tea in a Bedouin tent after desert wanderings sustained only 카지노사이트, dates and courage. Ride an omnibus since it belches and careens over London's cobblestone streets. Watch an image shoot of an avant-garde composer in Paris as sunlight sets. Vivid description flows through this narrative since it travels from 1914 London to the mountains of Nepal and the Arabian Desert.
We're reunited with old friends Fiona and Joe Bristow, Sid Malone and his wife, Dr. India Selwyn Jones. Highlighted are Seamie Finnegan, famous polar explorer and Willa Alden, the "wild rose" and apparent heroine. Willa photographs and maps the Himalayas with a prosthetic leg. Seamie can't decide what woman he loves and winds up a captain in the British navy. Handsome Max von Brandt, a German mountaineer who toys with women for his own advantage, is really a colorful, man-you-love-to-hate character. Maud Selwyn Jones, a scandalous lady novelist, is married to 1 man and mistress to another.
Extensive period detail entrenches us in the historical setting. After seventy pages of the key characters' back stories from The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose, the book will take off at a fast clip. Women seek equal rights in England. Climbers scale mountains in Nepal. Anxious people wait for news of the loved ones at war. Love, lust, jealousy, deception and action-packed adventure intertwine. World War I looms before us. The Dali Lama, Ernest Shackleton, Lawrence of Arabia and Winston Churchill make appearances.
Author, Jennifer Donnelly, lives in the Hudson Valley of New York. She reads widely and considers research more of a skill than the usual science. Her recently published Revolution won the American Booksellers Young Adult Book of the Year and the Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Books. A Northern Light, her coming of age book, received numerous awards. Donnelly's versatility is clear in her creation of The Rose Trilogy.
The stories from The Tea Rose (2002) and The Winter Rose (2008) are intertwined to reacquaint us with characters from the previous novels. Reading another books in the trilogy will improve your enjoyment of The Wild Rose, but just in case you haven't, Donnelly fills us in on sufficient background. That attempt proves somewhat mind-boggling as a result of myriad of characters and sub-plots it produces. This reader was sad that minor roles are given to some of the characters I came to love in the initial two books.
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