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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quaint, touching and such a pleasure
Joan Aiken's "Embroidered Sunset" is like a fairy-tale turned mystery. It's very British, in the sense that all characters are rather quaint and, on the most part, very likeable. However, in the midst of all this cute and quaint "tea, aunts, paintings, Goldberg-variations"-story loom murder, sadness and shadows from the past. Aiken's characters are rather two-dimensional,...
Published on September 22, 2008 by Duchess
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dull novel about a woman finding her aunt..
"The Embroided Sunset" is a flat attempt at a mystery. An American woman living with a nasty uncle goes to Yorkshire to find out if her aunt is really dead or alive. She never does find the answer to this, but she does discover that her "aunt" is in danger as she stumbles into where a mad criminal has escaped. The writing is too vague, and there is a odd climax dealing...
Published on April 19, 2005 by Peter LaPrade
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quaint, touching and such a pleasure,
This review is from: The Embroidered Sunset (Black Dagger Crime) (Hardcover)
Joan Aiken's "Embroidered Sunset" is like a fairy-tale turned mystery. It's very British, in the sense that all characters are rather quaint and, on the most part, very likeable. However, in the midst of all this cute and quaint "tea, aunts, paintings, Goldberg-variations"-story loom murder, sadness and shadows from the past. Aiken's characters are rather two-dimensional, exactly as in fairy-tales, but still touch you to the core, which gives the story a strange and very unusual flavour. It is one of my favourites, extremely well written, great sense of humour, very mysterious and rather tragic.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dull novel about a woman finding her aunt..,
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This review is from: The Embroidered Sunset (Hardcover)
"The Embroided Sunset" is a flat attempt at a mystery. An American woman living with a nasty uncle goes to Yorkshire to find out if her aunt is really dead or alive. She never does find the answer to this, but she does discover that her "aunt" is in danger as she stumbles into where a mad criminal has escaped. The writing is too vague, and there is a odd climax dealing with a flood and a badly built carpark(parking garage), and an ending that bums us out and makes us curse the book for wasting our time.
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The Embroidered Sunset (Black Dagger Crime) by Joan Aiken (Hardcover - Nov. 1993)
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