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A review by novelesque_life
City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn
3.0
3 STARS
(I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review).
The Great War has ended and the now widowed, Evie is trying to support herself and her aunt Dove with her fame as an aviatrix. Evie and Gabriel were going to divorce before he died on the Lusitania and Evie was left with mix feelings. While their whirlwind courtship and marriage was ending Evie has always loved her adventurer husband. Five years since Gabriel's death Evie is finally moving on with her life when she receives a recent picture of Gabriel. She suddenly puts her life on hold and sets out to find out the mystery behind the picture.
Since the novel was set in the 1920s I cannot help but picture Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable as Evie and Gabriel. I did like the banter between and love story of the Starks but there were times in the novel where the book dragged on longer then it should have. I enjoyed the novel but I still prefer Lady Julia.
(I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review).
The Great War has ended and the now widowed, Evie is trying to support herself and her aunt Dove with her fame as an aviatrix. Evie and Gabriel were going to divorce before he died on the Lusitania and Evie was left with mix feelings. While their whirlwind courtship and marriage was ending Evie has always loved her adventurer husband. Five years since Gabriel's death Evie is finally moving on with her life when she receives a recent picture of Gabriel. She suddenly puts her life on hold and sets out to find out the mystery behind the picture.
Since the novel was set in the 1920s I cannot help but picture Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable as Evie and Gabriel. I did like the banter between and love story of the Starks but there were times in the novel where the book dragged on longer then it should have. I enjoyed the novel but I still prefer Lady Julia.