Apocalypse of the Heart [Hardcover]

Barbara Cartland (Author), Marcus Bellfry (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 237 pages
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (June 28, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517148137
• ISBN-13: 978-0517148136
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,575,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars drivel, February 6, 2005

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becfrack "becfrack" (virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apocalypse of the Heart (Hardcover)

I don't usually write reviews but this book was so awful i can't believe it was ever published!
The premise is good and the first chapter or two were promising. Queen Victoria, who needed an English Royal bride for a Balkan country (to keep Russia from usurping the territory) scrapes the bottom of her relations and orders her Goddaughter to be sent over. Neither side are happy but put their duty first. On her way to the wedding, an horrible train accident occurs in which she is knocked unconcious, loses her memory (which the author's note at the beginning of the novel about amnesia leads you to believe will happen anyway) and is confused for a member of a troop of performers traveling to the royal wedding to perform. I don't wish to spoil the book, which is so predictable in the first place you would need any excitement you could get.
The characters have no depth to them at all. Alicia has amnesia but the author doesn't even go into how scared or frightened she SHOULD have felt at not knowing her own identity. It is also an inconvience for her story in making the reader believe that the prince should fall in love with her and think her so wonderful when he can't even get to know who she is, just a few of her talents. All they really know about each other is that they find the other attractive, but we never even really get a physical description of the prince. She doesn't even have Alicia thinking about what makes the prince special at all. Put it this way, I believe they told each other at least 20 times they loved each other after knowing each other for 2 days and in 2 chapters. I think she must have written it into the dialog so often thinking it would make the reader believe it. I did not. In fact, the dialog was so cheesy i would skip some of it just because i was too busy rolling my eyes! Do not read this book - EVER! Apparently England thinks she's a good author. She's certainly prolific, but I don't think I ever care to read another of her stories.