It shall certainly take time to prove this with someone of your limited background.”ĭropping my arms, I feel an ache in my shoulders.Ĭlearly, my education is going to require a vast amount of practice.Frankly, life in America sucks. “It isn’t yer place.”To dressing, to behaving like a young lady in a culture so completely foreign to her. I hurry out of bed and reach for the bucket. From knowing "her place" as the young mistress of a house.apparentlyy, a young lady is not expected to help out around the house-as compared to Siam, where there are no class lines among the villagers and missionaries. Life in a new country takes getting used to. A sense of unease fills my stomach as I stare up at what is to be my new home.ĭark and foreboding, it appears just as unwelcoming as the rest of Philadelphia.But it's all the less welcoming for it. Her home is beautiful, grand, a majestic mansion.
Compared to beautiful, colorful, vibrant, sunny Siam, dank, dark, gloomy Philadelphia could not be more different. Annabel has spent the past 10 years living with her beloved mother (now deceased) in Siam (present-day Thailand). The streets of America are not paved with gold but with uneven stones.Annabel Lenore Lee has newly arrived in Philadelphia. The Summary: It seems the stories I have been told were untrue. This book is not terrible, but it is just washed out in comparison.
You will find more horror in that book, you will find a better mystery, you will find a character who is not so dishwater-pale. That book is superior to this one in every way. I made a reference to The Madman's Daughter and I meant it. It doesn't hurt, but neither is it great. I just don't have a whole lot of complaints or praises for this book. This is going to be a very brief review (for me, that is), because there's just not much I can say about this book. This book also takes a considerable amount of liberties with Edgar Allan Poe. The mysteries, the "hints," the murders.all fell flat. However, the pacing is slow, the plot is easily foreseeable by anyone not mentally deficient, and there was not enough horror to hold my interest. This book has a beautiful atmosphere, it has an enjoyable main character and narrator. “How am I to accurately write about something unless I have been a firsthand witness to it?”There is nothing bad about this book, but fans of The Madman's Daughter series will find that this series pales in comparison. Actual rating: 2.5 “A story? You are recording your horrors?”
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