In the first book, I didn’t love the characters. Gregory has such a knack for writing great atmosphere and Tidelands was no exception but this one just lacked a lot of mood and atmosphere. Tidelands had a lot of atmosphere and this one just didn’t have the same level of atmosphere as I had hoped and frankly expected in this one. But this one read equally as slow as the first book.
In the first book, there was a lot of ground work that needed to be laid for the characters and their ultimate choices, however in this book I hoped that things would pick up more and that there would be more in the way of actual plot rather the ground laying. I think one of the things the surprised me about this novel was that I expected it to be better and it just wasn’t. Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home (summary from Goodreads) Review Alinor tells him that she knows-without doubt-that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon.Īlinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war.
The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse’s poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy-his son and heir. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before.
Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. So I leapt at the chance to read this installment of the series. However, at the end of Tidelands I felt invested enough in the characters and the story to continue reading the series, in hopes that it would get better and the characters more exciting along with the story. Most of the time, I love Gregory’s novels and have really enjoyed how rich and nuanced her history, characters, and romances are but in this one, I just felt like the story itself was cumbersome and dry. But I came away feeling a little underwhelmed. I wanted to read something by Philipa Gregory so badly and I jumped at the chance to read Tidelands. When I saw Tidelands was coming out, I was so excited.
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