Long Masquerade [Hardcover]

Madeleine Brent (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 349 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (February 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385145977
• ISBN-13: 978-0385145978
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,168,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has it all -- adventure, romance, mystery!, March 10, 2005

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Sonita Black (Prague, Czech Republic) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Long Masquerade (Hardcover)

One trait of all M. Brent books is that they are told in first person by the main heroine, who is always honorable, moral and generous (a heroine you can truly admire and respect and long to be), and who always discovers, through the course of the book, her true origins, which is almost always accompanied by a dark mystery in her parents' past. This book is no exception, and of all nine M. Brent books, this is my absolute favorite!
The heroine is raised by relatives in Jamaica, who arrange her marriage with an abusive man (no, they don't know he's unnatural, and there are no graphic details of the abuse). In one night of terror, her husband is killed and she escapes with a close friend (sort of an adopted father) on his boat. They live (platonically) on the boat sailing from port to port trading goods and living happily until they are shipwrecked and she saves the life of a sick man they had been taking to an island (sorry, for more exciting details you have to read the book, and it is verrrry exciting, and this is only a third of the way through :o). Her adopted father dies in the shipwreck, but the sick man gets well and takes her back to England, where she lives happily until a dark secret from the past rears its ugly head and sends her back to Jamaica in search of (to find out read the book!).
I read the book in Czech so I can say nothing about the writing style in English, but I admired the heroine, I loved the hero, and the story kept me glued till the last pages with its intricate twists, multiple plot lines and gripping narrative...

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book was excellent, and I would recommend it to anyone., November 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Long Masquerade (Hardcover)

I love all the Madeleine Brent books, but this is one of my favorites. It has it all - suspense, action, romance and mystery. The heroine is strong and adventurous, and the hero is tall, dark and mysterious. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially fans of gothic romance, and I am very disappointed that the Madeliene Brent books are no longer in print.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like adventure, mystery, a strong female characters, and romance without the smut, this is the book for you!, December 12, 2008

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Victoria M. Meyer (Jerome, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Long Masquerade (Hardcover)

If you like adventure, mystery, a strong female characters, and romance without the smut, this is the book for you! Once again Madeleine Brent, really Peter O'Donnel (sp?), has written an enjoyable adventure/romance book with a light mystery. Brent's female characters are strong, capable, moral women; which is a refreshing change from so many other books. The story goes from Jamica to sailing the Caribean, to post Victorian England and then back to the Caribean. Although the story line was slightly predictable with a hugh coincidence occuring; it was still told well enough to make me want to keep reading.