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The Stolen Singer
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408 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1911
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January 29, 2023
Interesting book, helps get a sense of the period (1911), book took three chapters wrapping up the story.
May 30, 2017
The kidnapped singer is Agatha Redmond, her plucky rescueer is Jim Hambleton, familiarly known as Jimsy, which actually speaks volumes about the light-hearted tone of this amiable but undercooked romance.
Agatha was rescued by the end of the first reel, which need not have derailed the story's forward progress as much as it did. The heroine saved from the Atlantic brine, the author couldn't save her meagre plot from there on in as it stagnated while the hero convalesced.
At least this allowed her to introduce some quirky support characters - an ambitious maid, a zealously religious spinster with healing hands - but they didn't add nearly enough to compensate for the fatal loss of momentum.
While Bellinger stuck to the fast pace and tongue-in-cheek humour she was on to a winner, when she left the characters to themselves not so much.
Agatha was rescued by the end of the first reel, which need not have derailed the story's forward progress as much as it did. The heroine saved from the Atlantic brine, the author couldn't save her meagre plot from there on in as it stagnated while the hero convalesced.
At least this allowed her to introduce some quirky support characters - an ambitious maid, a zealously religious spinster with healing hands - but they didn't add nearly enough to compensate for the fatal loss of momentum.
While Bellinger stuck to the fast pace and tongue-in-cheek humour she was on to a winner, when she left the characters to themselves not so much.
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