The Wizard's Daughter
By Barbara Michaels
Read by Norma West
Copyright 1998
Generally speaking I enjoy Barbara Michaels (aka Elizabeth Peters). I have always found the gothic romance novels to be lots of fun reading.
In this book, Marianne is orphaned and sent out into the world. She's a gentleman's daughter who has no idea what is happening around her. Her parentage is called into question and a Duchess takes her in. The Duchess believes she is the daughter of a man who held seances and such.
Eventually we learn that the mysteries of the great beyond can be (mostly) be explained, and greed is, as usual, the reason for the duplicity and shenanigans.
The book was okay, but it did not hold my attention as well as I expected it to. Marianne came across as pretty silly sometimes.
2 stars
You read fast! You are pushin' 'em out!
ReplyDeleteThis was an audio book. I listen to books in the car all the time. And I read almost every night.
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