A Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron
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Title: A Flaw in the Blood
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Bantam 2008
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pages: 289
Rating: 2/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Mount TBR; Read Your Book Shelf; Popsugar — On my TBR for too long
The acclaimed author of the bestselling Jane Austen mysteries brings rich historical immediacy to an enthralling new suspense novel centered around Queen Victoria’s troubled court…and a secret so dangerous, it could topple thrones.
Totally struck out with this one. My first sign of trouble was that a blurb from Booklist compared it to Carlos Ruiz Zafon. His writing is gorgeous. This writing is mediocre. I didn’t get the same feel for a world as I do in Zafon’s novels. Beyond that, I hated the switching from 3rd person narration from Fitzgerald to 1st person narration from Victoria. The transitions were abrupt and very annoying. The storyline wasn’t very interesting or intriguing. I was bored with the novel. Definitely not worth my time.
