Masquerade of Vengeance [Hardcover]

Alice Chetwynd Ley (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Severn House Pub Ltd; First Edition edition (April 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0727817086
• ISBN-13: 978-0727817082
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,878,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not to my liking, November 19, 2009

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This review is from: Masquerade of Vengeance (Hardcover)

This story was so different from her other works: First of all, there was hardly any romance to be categorized as "Romance" novel, it was a pure mystery-solving story; Secondly, the plot moved very slowly to almost crawling, and it wasn't very exciting either; Thirdly, the writing lacked Ms. Ley's usual wit and humor, it was quite a boring read actually.

In addition, I was not very pleased with the ending either. I felt the villain who plotted revenge for 14 years obviously held strong bitterness toward people and incident that convicted him, I felt the decent thing to do was to at least offer him a better justice this time. One more bone to pick, the cover picture of this hard cover, large print edition was not very attractive and did not reflect the story at all. What a shame, I usually enjoyed Ms. Ley's books so well.

From back of the book: Years of exile in an Australian convict settlement fuelled his passion for revenge against three men. Now the day of reckoning was at hand... Sir Eustace Knowle was found battered to death. Threatening, anonymous letters had already been delivered to two others in the party gathered for the wedding of Sir George Marton's daughter. A chain of mysterious event and frightening "accidents" followed. It was at the masked ball that the Honourable Justin Rutherford and his niece, Anthea, witnessed the first incident--but this seemed an unlikely start to one of their famous adventures...