Oh, and I know this is snobby of me to say, but nothing makes me more annoyed than when I read little pieces of meaningless fluff like this and then there's 'discussion questions' in the back of the book, like it's freaking Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five or something. And never mind the fact that nothing, not one single thing, happens during the course of this entire book. I got the sense that it was trying to be some sort of mix of Dangerous Liaisons and Upstairs Downstairs, but it got caught in this middle ground between romance and historical fiction, which makes it not romancy enough enough for the romancers and waaaaaaaaaay too fluffy and shallow for anyone interested in actual historical fiction. Yes, within 15 pages, we have girls kissing, less than halfway through the book, an artist references what will become known in the 21st century as the progenitor of all uncomfortable anime-based bestiality fantasies (God, the things I learned as an art history minor), and.ok, well Constable Odo from Deep Space 9 isn't actually in this book, but there IS a character named 'Odo' and this was all I could imagine.īeyond all that, this book just wasn't what it was supposed to be. The two bond and that bond jeopardizes everyone involved.There are 3 things that happened in this book that made it an impossibility to take it remotely seriously, even if the rest of the book had been the pinnacle of sophisticated literature (it wasn't.) Things get complicated when Elizabeth joins a hunt with Bay as her guide. He meets Charlotte Baird, an heiress, and the two are drawn to each other. While Captain Middleton, the finest horseman in England, is struggling with no hope of buying the horse he needs to win the Grand National. She is known for her beauty, but is feeling unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Goodwin followed that book up with The Fortune Hunter that follows Empress Elizabeth of Austria who is basically the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe.

The book follows Cora as takes her new title as the Duchess of Wareham as she attempts to navigate the English social scene that is full of traps and betrayals. The American Heiress was Goodwin’s first novel and it tells the story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s, who finds herself married to the most eligible bachelor in England. If You Like Daisy Goodwin Books, You’ll Love…

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