Sometimes I get fed up with heroines of books who detest balls, fancy clothes and romance, and prefer to be riding horses, or, in the case of the newest novel I've started, Bewitching Season, practicing magic. The start of this book reminds me immensely of a novel I read a while back, called, (very similar title, too...) The Season. Both set in the early 1800s, both about a society girl who is not looking foward to the coming social season, wishes she doesn't have to marry some stuffy suitor, and then suddenly a handsome childhood friend arrives and changes that! But--once I get further along in Bewitching Season, I am sure it will change, because the central plot aspect is supposed to be something to do with a plot to harm Princess Victoria, who would one day become Queen Victoria. Based on my love of The Young Victoria movie, which the beginning involves her last year as a princess, (same as BS,) I'm sure that I'll get around to enjoying it more.
However, back to my original complaint. I'd just like to read about a heroine who actually is interested in fashion, society, etc. In fact, I can't think of any book which featured a character like that, off the top of my head! And ach, the historical fashion lover in me can't help criticizing the cover of Bewitching Season. The model is wearing a very costume-y outfit that looks very Spanish. At least it's better than the cover of The Season, those models were supposed to look Regency, but they just ended up looking like very modern-day girls in high-waisted, backless (for goodness sakes!) dresses! Ugh!
As for the long-ago, (well, not so long,) promise, (well, sort of promise,) of a review of The Fool's Girl, I still have not finished it. Yes, I very often read several books at once. But that particular novel is just not that interesting! I mean, it is, but it's very heavy reading, and not very captiviating. It doesn't help that the text is very crammed close together.
Francis Bacon, (whoever he is,) once said:
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Sometimes some books just have to be left as "tasted".
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