She knows family and love, her stor I gave this book a good attempt reading until pages almost half and to chapter She knows family and love, her story is interesting and wonderful. All her wonderful slowly starts to fade as events take place in her life. I was still very much interested in this book during this. However, some parts are taking a long time to draw out. Some thing that could be said in just a few sentences is taking the long process very drawn out.
After a while I didn't really care any more about Fiona. I found myself, yelling at her "ok, ok we know". Or "get over this and move on! Much like this review. I'm over it and bored of it already. I can see the ending a mile away, there is no mystery, no intrigue, no point to the story. I just lost interest. Everything started to become unbelievable, and way over written. The reason for my 2 star rating. From page 1 to about this story was good.
I loved Fiona and thought she was smart and was moving on from people and places that had caused her grief! After that point everything was predictable and I had no need to go over the same things. All in all if you can make it to the end of this long monster of a story, my hats off to you! I felt like slitting my wrists during this book.
Every time I picked the book up it was always "Let's see what kind of ridiculousness Donnelly sets up for this section. Donnelly has a huge problem in terms of creating characters: These characters were awful, and Fiona in particular w I felt like slitting my wrists during this book. These characters were awful, and Fiona in particular was the epitome of perfection, which made her the stupidest character of all in the book.
Every time Fiona would try to assert herself it sounded fake because she's the heroine that needs a man to save her. Have we not gotten over this nonsense in literature anymore? He's a terrible guy in every sense of the word and yet somehow, we as the reader are supposed to be attracted to him. I saw right through this ploy. The book's length is another issue I have. It's unnecessarily long and overly descriptive for no good reason. There's no reason why I should have to read a page about Fiona setting the table "just right. I felt like this book was trying to do too much and yet accomplishes so little.
She tosses in so many historical figures and references and doesn't do a lot with them. The "reveal" for Jack the Ripper was so obvious and you could tell Donnelly didn't try to make that mystery engaging. In fact, all the Jack the Ripper bits were so nonsensical at times that I questioned the inclusion, and then I got to the end of the book and wanted to slam my Kindle into the desk because it was so idiotic. This book kept going on and on for and it felt never-ending. I spent more time yelling and screaming in frustration at the plot and its characters because everything was just so stupid most of the time.
I love books that are trashy and train wreckish, but even this went way over my threshold. I want these pages back.
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I'll admit I gave up part way through this book; I just couldn't manage to finish it. It was recommended to me by a friend and with all the great reviews and also being a fan of the Thorn Birds to which its unfairly compared?! So why was I so disappointed? Let me categorise this to put it more simply: I'm no writer myself, but I know enough to recognise that the writing is horrific. I could skip chunks at a time and not miss anything import I'll admit I gave up part way through this book; I just couldn't manage to finish it.
I could skip chunks at a time and not miss anything important. All the unnecessary and unimaginative descriptions!
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And the unrealistic dialogue! It's hard to imagine this brick of a book is only one in a series, because the Thorn birds managed to fit 3 generations into one book without it losing any substance. Colleen McCollough would roll in her grave knowing she's being compared with a Stephenie Meyer version of herself. Everything was cliched and cheesy and unrealistic. The sexual encounters between Fiona and Joe borderlined fan fiction smut.
It felt so immature. She was a terribly unlikable character driven by childish jealousy, and had the cliched fan fiction good looks and fiery attitude. As much as I like a confident female character, can't we have a tough literary girl who isn't defined by her looks or wild temperament? Let's not mention the other characters. They were all so one-dimensional and had no recognisable flaws to them. If the author had spent more time developing her characters and their backgrounds, and less time describing what Kate cooked for dinner, maybe I would have believed this a little more.
I just realised I've spent more time writing this than the book was edited, so I'll stop it here. I will add one thing - the only parts I liked were where some victim was getting brutally murdered. The author seemed to make up for her faults by killing off her own stupid characters. I am flabbergasted that this book is the first in a series.
This was a book club selection and I pushed on to the last page as an act of solidarity with the other members and being honest, by the end I was laughing every other page. I was excited about the idea of this book since I'm crazy for even the crappiest book about the Ripper, but apparently there are limits to what I can put up with for some Ripper fanfiction.
I almost feel bad giving this book one star because I'm pretty sure there a I am flabbergasted that this book is the first in a series. I almost feel bad giving this book one star because I'm pretty sure there are two or three mid-range books trapped inside this mess. It's a mystery, a romance, a historical sort of novel, and a western-ish plucky heroine tale. This is my pet peeve in historical fiction — one where the author has clearly done a lot of research about the time, places, and famous figures living at that time — and then does ridiculous things like write characters with 21st century attitudes.
There is no way to excuse a novel overflowing with folks all gung-ho about gay rights in Or a novel full of people where almost no one mentions that our heroine is Irish — in New York — in the late 19th century. I liked the middle of the book — where Fiona is reopening her uncle's market — the best, but that could be because it read like a Janette Oke novel. I want to say this book was so bad, so over-the-top, that it was good — but no. It was just bad. I enjoyed the story but the fact that the "F word" is used at least 3 times a page and some awkward "love" scenes I can't give this more than two stars.
I felt like the Jack the Ripper theme was thrown in when it really didn't add much to the story. There were some parts I really enjoyed while others I had to force myself to read because I was a little bored. It was chosen as our monthly book club book and I don't think I will be reading any other books in the series. Unfortunately very, very boring. I couldn't finish this book, though I liked the characters and was interested in the storyline.
It was just way too raw and coarse for my taste. I would have liked to finish it.
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I didn't like The Tea Rose very much but, honestly, it was my fault for not doing more research before I read it. I was under the misunderstanding that this book was a historical mystery.
It is not a mystery. Also, I had no idea it was another story about Jack the Ripper. Even though ultimately the author's motivation for Jack was actually interesting, I had n I didn't like The Tea Rose very much but, honestly, it was my fault for not doing more research before I read it.
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Even though ultimately the author's motivation for Jack was actually interesting, I had no desire to read yet another book about Jack the Ripper. It's been done too many times before. Instead of a twisty mystery, I got a sort of rambling historical epic. The historical setting was very rich and fascinating.
The author obviously did a lot of research to make the time period feel as detailed as possible and I really appreciated that. The glimpses into historical tea-making, grocery selling, and advertising were very interesting to me. I also enjoyed the main character, Fiona, and her drive for sucess despite her humble background. But it was just really long with not a lot of purpose.
In the second half of the book, Fiona has the best sort of luck as she magically meets a member of the peerage who basically rescues her, has a millionaire fall in love with her, and magically becomes a roaring financial sucess despite being only eighteen with no experience. Either section was a bit hard to believe. I did like Fiona's plan of revenge for her family's death. That part was interesting to watch unfold.
But again, it was so long and spanned so much time without any decent twists that my enjoyment was zapped as I kept wishing the author would just get to the point already. Yes, the plot required a lot of time, but there wasn't enough of a plot to keep me engaged. Also, there was a lot of graphic sex scenes that I didn't care for at all. The interesting history ultimately couldn't redeem the book for me. I wanted my historical mystery! This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
This story had some of the laziest plotting I've ever encountered, and the main character is such a Mary Sue that it's laughable. She just happens to run into a wealthy traveler who offers her passage on a ship to America right when she needs it. She just happens to run into the owner of the bank when she's trying to get a loan.
The whole novel is premised on unbelievable coincidence after unbelievable coincidence. Every time she's stuck in a jam, someone magically appears to give her exactly wh This story had some of the laziest plotting I've ever encountered, and the main character is such a Mary Sue that it's laughable. Every time she's stuck in a jam, someone magically appears to give her exactly what she needs. Of course, lets not forget she's charming, beautiful but doesn't know it , and a genius business woman who, in the span of ten years manages to rebuild a general store, create the best-selling tea in America, create iced tea and popularize it in the South, and invents pre-packaged tea bags.
I didn't go in expecting this to be the next great work of literature, but given how many people seem to love this book, I was expecting a story with at least the semblance of a believable plot and believable characters. Suffice to say, I was sorely disappointed. I did not enjoy this book at all; I gave up half way through, something I never normally do. To give a balanced perspective this is possibly the wrong genre for me, I am not a fan of sweeping romances. That aside I was frustrated by the fleeting, irrelevant, side plots jack the ripper, references to Vincent van Gogh etc I physically cringed at the following description of Will's thoughts on Fiona "She had sparked feelings in him, feelings of concern and I did not enjoy this book at all; I gave up half way through, something I never normally do.
I physically cringed at the following description of Will's thoughts on Fiona "She had sparked feelings in him, feelings of concern and protectiveness, and deeper, unfamiliar ones too. Feelings he did not understand and could not name". It sounds like something i would have written in my diary journal as a teenager. For me, this had the makings of a great book plot wise, but the writing style was just not to my taste. I had high hopes for this one. Set in London during the time of Jack the Ripper, a tale of two working class teenagers that fall in love and have great plans for their life together until it all falls apart.
Couldn't get into it and then there were just a few too many steamy love scenes so it felt more like a romance novel. So I gave up. I had to give up one-third of the way through. I was expecting so much more. Leider hat mir dieses Buch nicht gefallen. Ich habe keinen Zugang zu den Charakteren gefunden und die Handlung wirkte auf mich sehr konstruiert.
I started this book, i didnt get very far, way to much sex, violence and language for me. What an absolute embarrassment. Okay wow, where to start I absolutely hated this book.
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Hated it with a passion I didn't know I had. First and foremost, Donnelley's debut novel A Gathering Light was stunning it is genuinely one of my favourites and then she comes along with this disgusting mess. Why is she doing this to me? When it was still lulling me into a false sense of security that it wouldn't be such a shit heap and also it's for Nick Soames, an okay-ish character, who was funny and made me laugh. If it ended at like pages it might have been a 3 star book. A person who apparently can do no fucking wrong.
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Like every minute detail of her outfit it told to us through the eyes of a man admiring her, and remarking on her beauty and determination and some bullshit. The think I hate MOST of this train wreck is how everyone becomes a fucking millionaire or incredibly successful, like what the actual fuck? Is this a fairytale of some sort. Is that what she as going for, when Fiona fucked a 45 year old billionaire who is was building the NYC Subway?!!!! This completely and utterly ruined the book for me, everything was so bloody rosy.
Not just a successful tea room, oh no, a fucking chain of tea rooms. Like I know all her family died, but she had wrote them so 2D that I couldn't give a flying fuck when Paddy died and Fee certainly couldn't care less about her mothers death. And I just the sex scene were so weird and not at all with the tone of the rest of book, good gosh. The only okayish one was the slightly creepy, and sexual assault-y scene with Millie and Joe.
The death of Fee's family was also a bit fucking much. Jeez lousie, like did they all have to die so violently. Why couldn't her mum have died of the many infections ride at that time?! Why did she even have to die of the Ripper? Did she even give a fuck? I'm not a historian by any means and I could see that she took a whole lotta liberties. Did not believe it one bit. I was hoping they find happiness elsewhere. Log in Sign up. Roman Rosen-Trilogie German Edition. Jennifer Donnelly author Angelika Felenda author. LeseBlick rated it 2 years ago http: Die junge India Selwyn-Jones bewegt sich in den feinsten Kreisen.
Blue Cat Review rated it 5 years ago http: A wonderful sequel to The Tea Rose. Fiona and Joe's family continue, and so does the constant battle to get ahead in life. This time, life has reached out to Seamie and Willa, as they clim ChristyM rated it 5 years ago http: Ich dachte an den 1. Teil kann so schnell kein anderes Buch heranreichen geschweige denn fast noch besser sein, aber Wyvernfriend Reads rated it 5 years ago http: A sequel to the Tea Rose, this is a story that would appeal to those who enjoy this sort of epic tale of history, romance and adventure.