Scan barcode
A review by leavingsealevel
Brighton Belle by Sara Sheridan
2.0
Promising Maisie Dobbs readalike! So "promising," in fact, that I'd be feeling a bit ripped off by Mirabelle were I Maisie. Let's review...both series plots seem to contain:
Young female character. Postwar. Did something heroic and unconventional during the war. Kinda traumatized by it. Had slightly unacceptable love affair during said war. Ended tragically. Now back in England. Trying to do something totally different. Solves mysteries. Past creeps back. Has diversity sidekick.
About that diversity sidekick. I'll gladly read a few more of these, but Vesta had better be given an actual *personality* sometime soon, in addition to only being being The Black Friend Who Illustrates How English Society Is Racist and Helps Solve the Mystery.
Young female character. Postwar. Did something heroic and unconventional during the war. Kinda traumatized by it. Had slightly unacceptable love affair during said war. Ended tragically. Now back in England. Trying to do something totally different. Solves mysteries. Past creeps back. Has diversity sidekick.
About that diversity sidekick. I'll gladly read a few more of these, but Vesta had better be given an actual *personality* sometime soon, in addition to only being being The Black Friend Who Illustrates How English Society Is Racist and Helps Solve the Mystery.