Snobbery with Violence

Ik las eerder al een aantal boeken van haar Agatha Raisin serie en deze vond ik super. Een beetje een moderne Agatha Christie. Dit boek, echter, was nogal geforceerd. Geen enkele keer voelde ik me meegezogen in het verhaal. De steeds wisselende gezichtspunten deden daar ook geen goed aan. Al bij al vrij ontgoocheld.

Well...
I suppose the main couple is Rose and Harry, though I don't like Rose. Too dishwater and YA “strong heroine” for my taste. And Harry... I don't get him. He's a bit too fluid, always adjusting to the part he's supposed to be playing, a bit robotic.
I love Daisy, though. Beckett is a darling, too.

I'm not too fond of Marion's ideas of the upper class and Edwardian England. There is obviously social criticism, and I believe she wrote Rose and Harry deliberately dumb because they are both nobles. Also, I suppose she has her own formulas. I need to read more to see how these people fit the pattern. So far I have only read Agatha Raisin books (not all of them, just the 9 first ones)

I think Marion Chesney is a great author because even with all this criticism, I don't mind reading these books. Right now I'll only touch some books to get more ammunition against the author, and their books always make me irritated. :-D

The murder mystery part... it's really not a murder mystery. Sure, there are murders, and we get to know whodunnit and how, and all that, but it's not something... it's more a side note on the story.
It also felt a bit... fake.

I don't think Edwardians believed you can cure STDs by sleeping with a virgin - or that people spoke of STDs, sex etc. as freely as they did in this book.