At Somerton: Cinders & Sapphires (Paperback)

from jennybeast

It wants to be Downton Abbey, and I think I'd love it if it were a TV show. As a book, it's limited -- the characters aren't developed enough to really pull me in and the flagrant bad behavior is very extreme. I appreciate that the main characters are rebels in their own ways, but they are all ei...

from TheMadHatters

For all Downton Abbey lovers. The Averely family has returned from India amid a cloud of scandal, but the daughers of the house, Ada and Georgiana, are anticpating their first London season. Below stairs, Rose is promoted to ladies maid to Ada, but her promotion creates jealousy. Let the drama be...

from foggidawn

Cinders & Sapphires by Leila Rasheed is set in the same post-Edwardian era as Downton Abbey (which I adore), and I was hoping for something along those lines. I also expected that there might be a Cinderella-esque quality to the story, going by the title. At first, this book seems to deliver . . ...

from AG314

At Somerton: Cinders and Sapphires 2013. 400pp. $17.99 hc. Disney-Hyperion. 978-1-4231-7117-1. Grades 9-12 In 1910, 16-year-old Lady Ada Averley returns from India to her ancestral family home at Somerton Court, preparing to enter the marriage market of the London Season with other girls her age....

from Richhayes

While I enjoy a good period story, I found that this one was not for me. It is in the same area as "Upstairs Downstairs" or "Downtown Abbey", Two shows I just couldn't get interested in but as the writing and plot was good if a reader likes this kind of story I gave it 4 stars. Summary, if you li...