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Indlæser... Maestraaf L. S. Hilton
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I loved the main character, even when she wasn't very likeable. ( ) Judith Rashleigh is hoping to make a career in an exclusive English auction house when she stumbles on a suspicious sale, the knowledge of which eventually costs her her job. To keep her head above water she heads for Europe with a highly unattractive sugar daddy, and things go spectacularly downhill from there. This is a wild yarn with a whirlwind plot but, honestly, Judith is such an annoying snobbish git one could never warm to her, let alone want to read the subsequent books in the series about her travails. Barely a paragraph goes past without the author name-checking some exclusive brand or another in order to build Judith's cred as a knowing fashionista. Hilton seems oblivious to the fact that the very last thing a truly stylish person would be doing is bragging about brand names; it's one of the many traits she gives this character that doesn't ring true and make her deeply unappealing. This is one of those books that gets worse and worse as it goes. The first 100 pages or so were quite good fun - lots of globe trotting, art galleries, rich people and kinky sex. After that though I started to realise that was all ‘Maestra’ really had to offer. It ends up feeling like two different books clumsily mashed together: a rather pedestrian thriller about dodgy goings on in the art world (which even by the end I didn’t really understand) and a bad porn novel. The lead character (whose name I have already forgotten) is entirely unconvincing, not very likeable and two dimensional in so far as she’s like 2 one dimensional characters mashed together. Avoid! ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF KILLING EVE THE BEST OF SKIMM READS 2016 ??One of this year??s most talked about novels.? ??The Washington Post ??A twenty-first-century femme fatale as lethal as Tom Ripley and as seductive as Bacall.? ??Vogue A put-upon assistant at a prestigious London art house, Judith Rashleigh is well-educated, well-groomed, and impeccably behaved??keeping the darker desires she indulges on nights off as her own little secret. But when Judith uncovers a dangerous heist, her life is shattered and she??s forced to run. Armed with just her wits and a talent for self-invention, she makes her way from the French Riviera to Geneva, Rome, and the nightclubs of Paris, determined to take back what is rightfully hers. The beginning of a darkly irresistible trilogy, Maestra follows the rise of Judith, a woman whose vulnerability and ruthlessness have left readers worldwide begging to know: where do you g No library descriptions found. |
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