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vivdunstan ([personal profile] vivdunstan) wrote 2024-06-17 07:42 pm (UTC)

Yup I just had a really strong aversion to those introductory notes. Should have just skipped them!

I liked Scarlet more than Invisible Library #1, which didn't leave me enamoured enough to carry on reading the series. Though to be fair I may have been extra ill neurologically then. And I really like the concept of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Agreed re the romance. Also the bit that I thought the book would handle differently was when Chauvelin takes Eleanor on as a servant. I hoped he realised who she must be, and who she was going to pretend to be, and was then using her to try to lure in the Pimpernel gang. Because I think Chauvelin is cleverer than this book depicted him.

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