I read The Jewel of St Petersburg by Kate Furnivall which is set in the years before the Russian revolution and the start of that revolution. Valentina Ivanova is from an aristocratic family and her father is a government minister in charge of finances. Valentina is promised to a wealthy young army officer but she falls in love with a Danish engineer. She also defies her family by training to be a nurse, an inappropriate occupation for someone of her class. In fact any employment would be frowned on. The background of the revolution is interesting but that does not save this book. It is nauseating reading, particularly the love scenes. There should be a warning for the reader "Warning - Love Scene coming up". Only that I am a compulsive finisher did I plough through this book. I should have given up after the first 100 pages. Life is too short to read an awful book. 2/5Friday, February 28, 2014
The Jewel of St Petersburg
I read The Jewel of St Petersburg by Kate Furnivall which is set in the years before the Russian revolution and the start of that revolution. Valentina Ivanova is from an aristocratic family and her father is a government minister in charge of finances. Valentina is promised to a wealthy young army officer but she falls in love with a Danish engineer. She also defies her family by training to be a nurse, an inappropriate occupation for someone of her class. In fact any employment would be frowned on. The background of the revolution is interesting but that does not save this book. It is nauseating reading, particularly the love scenes. There should be a warning for the reader "Warning - Love Scene coming up". Only that I am a compulsive finisher did I plough through this book. I should have given up after the first 100 pages. Life is too short to read an awful book. 2/5
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment