ProseWorthy
  • Home
  • Adventure Journal
  • Rachel's Reads
  • Fiction
  • About
  • Contact

"we read
to know
we're not
alone."
C. S. Lewis

a lady unrivaled by roseanna m. white

4/22/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
Ella Myerston didn't mean to take the earrings with her. Honest, she didn't. She just forgot. Or maybe she lost them, like she does with almost anything else entrusted to her care.

No matter. It was high time her brother involved her in this Fire Eyes business anyway. After all, she's not a child.

But the lord after the Fire Eyes has already been thwarted twice. His sister has been broken. His best friend has been killed. All in the name of the diamonds now swimming in the abyss of Ella's jewelry box.

Either way, it ends here.

The conclusion to the Ladies of the Manor trilogy feels like a return. This book matches more of the "Roseanna White" style I'd come to know and love from her other series. The characters spring to life from the pages once again. Ella's optimism never failed to lift my spirits, no matter the bleak circumstances she stared down. Her and Lord Cayton's banter never failed to make me smile. And Ella's unfailing trust in God never failed to inspire me.

One of the things I love about Roseanna White is how she takes a sensitive look at the reality of depression. She did it in On Wings of Devotion and she does it again here. She offers more than just an annoying, sniveling, whiny character. She gives us a real character, with real struggles. She makes us understand, to go deeper.

There were a few parts that were a bit murky and confusing. The climax builds to a big showdown between basically every character I came to love and the villain. I won't tell you how it ends, but suffice it to say, a gun is fired. The paragraphs describing that make it unclear who shot it. This issue is explained only a chapter later, but it still puzzled me and took a little bit away from the climax.

And by a little bit, I mean the teeniest bit possible. Ella truly is a lady unrivaled. And this was an unrivaled finale to the Ladies of the Manor trilogy and the saga of the Fire Eyes diamonds.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Rachel's Reads

    Hi there! Rachel again. Check out this section for book reviews and cover reveals of some of my favorites!

    Archives

    March 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    October 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    April 2019
    January 2019
    October 2017

    Categories

    All
    Action/Adventure
    Adult
    Best Of
    Blog Tags
    Blog Tours
    Book Reviews
    Christmas
    Contemporary
    Cover Reveals
    Dystopian
    Fairy Tale Retellings
    Fantasy
    Historical
    Middle Grade
    Science Fiction
    Supernatural
    Suspense
    Young Adult

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Adventure Journal
  • Rachel's Reads
  • Fiction
  • About
  • Contact