In Good Company

This is my current nightly indulgence read and I've found I've missed a few Turano books as well. Jen Turano is an author that makes me smile and I just delight in falling between the pages of her creatively witty stories set in the regal 1880s New York. These feminist creatures are intelligent and fun and I'd love to know them in person, but on the page is the second best. I cannot wait to see what happens next and then head back to catch the stories I've missed.

*This post was originally published on July 9, 2015. I am updating it now with a finished reading status and review.

Jen is such a humorous author and I love the witty characters that jump off her pages. I am soon to read After a Fashion as I some how missed getting myself a copy of that one (had a baby or some such life chaos). I delighted in every page of In Good Company. It is a different stream than her Ladies of Distinction series, but I get the feeling that the series of A Class of Their Own is going to be just as entertaining.

Millie is an awesome, yet slightly complicated character. She reminds me of a character named Sarah from another book I read, but only faintly. Millie is more of what would happen to Sarah later type of situation. Yet, there is also a slight bit of Eliza in her, yet different. I really liked getting to know her on the page. I'm eager to read more about her friends in the rest of the series.

 


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This review was originally posted on www.CreativeMadnessMama.com

3.5 stars

So, it's a fun story with a sweet ending. Millie is a spunky young woman much too prone to have mishaps, and her character is tons of fun to get to know. The peacocks drama is hilarious indeed...

There were a number of things that didn't add up that did distract me. (Mild spoilers)
-Her reading material vs. her vocabulary...a number of the words she had to look up in conversation would have been in common use in that day, but would have been some of the easier terms used in the classics she was reading.
-The children wearing frocks made out of curtains. Um, really? We are never told why Elizabeth decides to sew curtains into frocks. Realistically, the servants would have taken away their regular clothes and instantly slapped them into mourning after the parents' deaths—before the funeral even occurred.
-The idea of having an private swimming-pool built. Sorry, people were already deciding to build private pools in the late 1800s. It was a time of great focus on personal fitness in the upper classes.
-Seeing whales in the bay: in the days of old, whale oil demand greatly diminished the whale population. This wouldn't be likely, much less seeing two in summertime.