The Scandal of the Season [Import] [Paperback]

Sophie Gee (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus; Airport / Ireland / Export edition (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0701181176
• ISBN-13: 978-0701181178
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,373,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A witty, frothy page turner, August 13, 2007

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Meg Cox "journalist/author/quilter" (Princeton, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Scandal of the Season: A Novel (Hardcover)

OK, I will admit that I was an English major in college, but I think this novel will appeal to pretty much anyone who likes lively historical fiction that is smart, not sloppy. The sex scenes are as impressive as the scholarship in this book, which gets better and better as it nears the climax (pun intended). I would have liked an even denser texture of period detail, but there is quite a bit and the characters were more convincing than in many of these period stories. For book groups looking for something both racy and literary, here's your next book! Sophie Gee has reprinted the famous Pope poem at the end: after reading about the love affair that inspired the poem, I had a lot more fun reading it than I ever did in college.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fun read, but a little dissapointing in the end, January 9, 2008

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B. A. Chaney (Baltimore, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Scandal of the Season (Kindle Edition)

I received this book as a Christmas gift, and I was anxious to read it because I usually really enjoy historical fiction. Unfortunately I felt like this book was more romance than history. I mostly enjoyed the romance, and at times the book really was a page turner. But in the end the novel felt a little flat. The characters were quite flat, and there was little of the historical element that I had been expecting. The author writes well, so I hope if there is another novel it has more of a historical slant.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful novel, October 12, 2007

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Mark E. Moessinger "Mark Moessinger" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Scandal of the Season: A Novel (Hardcover)

This book enchanted me from the start. The depth of the author's research combined with her delightful writing style transport the reader to a beautifully rendered version of 18th century London. Her insights into human social and mating behavior are incisive and humorous. All in all a fabulous read. I eagerly await her next book.