Angela K

First, thank you to BookBrowse for providing an ARC of this book. Due out in February, 2020.

Gosh, I wanted, really wanted, to love this book. I have been a big fan of Grace Kelly since I was a young girl. But no. The language of the book is so flowery - five adjectives where two would have been sufficient. At the end, I felt the author painted Grace as an insecure and shallow woman. I have read so many historical fiction novels recently where the women were strong despite or because of circumstances and this portrait of Grace did not convey that.

Finally, can authors/editors/publishers become more creative with titles and covers? It seems that in the past few years "Girl" or "Woman" is in every title with a fuzzy dreamy picture of a female on the cover.

I gave this title 75 pages, but it did not engage me as I had hoped because my "go-to" books are historical fiction. I love such stories as Underground Railroad and Orphan Train, but I did not think this novel was close to either of those books. The dialog was disjointed at the beginning and prose a bit too flowery. In the end, I needed to move on to another story.