Tulip Fever (Audiobook)

from grigoro

Listened to this after reading that it is being made into a movie. Steamy thriller set in Holland in the 1600's. Beautiful young woman marries older widower, falls in love with young painter hired to create a portrait of the couple. Plot to run away goes south, secrets are unveiled.

from borbet

Annoying plotting. Not once, but twice, the author uses a very flimsy plot device to force the action into (what seems to me) a preconceived path. Oiy. Characters make decisions and take actions that are too implausible. With all the historical fiction out there with art as a major theme -- there...

from RobinDawson

Disappointing. I thought the historical background about the tulip industry would be interesting, but by the time I got to page 78 the tulips had only been mentioned in passing, and the story was mainly concerned with heaving bodices, and the dalliances of the mistress and her maid. The Girl With...

from miss_read

Set in Amsterdam in the 1630s, this is the story of a wealthy merchant, Cornelis Sandvoort, and his beautiful, much-younger wife, Sophia. The merchant commissions an artist, Jan van Loos, to paint a portrait of the couple, and the wife and the artist embark on an affair. The story is supposed to ...

from DeltaQueen50

A classic case of not being what I expected, Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach in turns both intrigued and irritated me. I thought I was going to be reading a straight forward historical fiction story set in Amsterdam during the mid-1600's. Instead I found myself reading a slightly melodramatic love...