A review by ashleylm
The Provincial Lady Goes Further by E.M. Delafield
4.0
I'm waffling a bit on my score. Four seems high, but it was, like its predecessor, such an easy pleasure to read, and that's worth something. It's just not quite as good as the first one—there was something especially funny/touching about the main subplot in the first (will the put-upon daughter escape her hilariously dreadful mother and marry?), and the current main subplot (what will the triple divorcee do next?) isn't as interesting and isnt' resolved.
So as a work of art, 3 stars. But as something to looking forward to reading before lights out, definitely 4 stars--and that's how I read it, so that's how I judge it.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve!
So as a work of art, 3 stars. But as something to looking forward to reading before lights out, definitely 4 stars--and that's how I read it, so that's how I judge it.
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). I feel a lot of readers automatically render any book they enjoy 5, but I grade on a curve!