Libby Sternberg
Author of Sloane Hall
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Death is the Cool Night (Sean Reilly Book 1) by Libby Sternberg
This tale of the murder of a conductor at the Peabody Conservatory in 1941 is held together with the threads of music. The sounds of the 1940s, classical music and then opera lyrics are added that highlight the emotions. Romance leads and murder follows in the more rigid class system of this time period.
Sloane Hall is a re-telling of Jane Eyre, set in Hollywood in the 1920s as talking pictures are coming into vogue. In this version “Jane” is John Royce, a poor young man who ends up working as the chauffeur for silent movie star Pauline Sloane (Mr. Rochester).
Although I read the story to the very end, it was only to find out what happened, and to compare it to Jane Eyre. I didn’t find any of the characters particularly likeable, and the drinking, drugs, and sex made the story too dark for my taste. (Frankly, I found the rape and sodomy completely unnecessary)
Jane, whose heart shines like a thousand-watt beacon, who burns with righteous indignation over injustices and cruelty, is the heart of the original book, and I have always loved her.
John is just an angry, sometimes cruel, young man, with no moral compass. The first person narration by him only hurts the story.
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Although I read the story to the very end, it was only to find out what happened, and to compare it to Jane Eyre. I didn’t find any of the characters particularly likeable, and the drinking, drugs, and sex made the story too dark for my taste. (Frankly, I found the rape and sodomy completely unnecessary)
Jane, whose heart shines like a thousand-watt beacon, who burns with righteous indignation over injustices and cruelty, is the heart of the original book, and I have always loved her.
John is just an angry, sometimes cruel, young man, with no moral compass. The first person narration by him only hurts the story.
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When fifteen-year-old Carl and his seventeen-year-old brother Adam are orphaned, they must move in 1922 to Portland, Oregon to live with their Uncle Pete. When Adam is falsely accused of stealing jewelry from the home of his wealthy girlfriend, Carl must confront anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant sentiment as he works to find the real thief.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I’m having a bad run with ER books – this is the second one I’ve given up on before the end. I found it very hard to get into the story as it seemed very slow. I had several tries before I gave up but never got further than chapter four when I decided that I wasn’t interested in the characters and certainly didn’t care about them enough to read on.
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