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Victoria Holt µ 6 Free read Read & Download È PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB µ Victoria Holt Read Snare of Serpents Iendship with a poor but charming student Jamie whom her father forbade her to wed When her father suddenly died from arsenic poisoning the means motive and opportunity all pointed to. extremely suspenseful

Victoria Holt µ 6 Free read Read & Download È PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB µ Victoria Holt Read Snare of Serpents Davina herself Alone she escaped to the colonies in Africa But with the Boer War came danger and the return of dark secrets from the past that threatened her reputation and her very li. If Victoria Holt s other books have chiefly taken Jane Eyre and Rebecca for inspiration Snare of Serpents represents a departure since the primary influence seems to be Wilkie Collins The Law and the Lady and Dorothy Sayers Strong Poison Though Snare starts out interestingly enough with evil stepmother murder accusation the stigma of the not proven verdict which could have made for a great story as the heroine Davina attempts to deal with the aforementioned stigma and work with the hero Ninian to clear her name the story instead jumps to South Africa to a totally unrelated and bizarre story In and of itself the South AfricaBoer War storyline was kind of interesting in a sort of frontier mystery way There was some good drama and it was much less racist than the Victoria Holt books I ve read that are set in India At the same time though it felt completely unrelated to the main plot did nothing to advance the mystery surrounding the murder of Davina s father did not provide any sort of growth for the romantic relationship and did not really affect Davina in any substantial way Most of the solutions to the novel s two mysteries happen in a fairly deus ex machina way without Davina needing to exercise any sort of agency or initiative Though she is traumatised by her trial throughout the book she remains naive sometimes to the point of TTSL even though it seems like her experiences should have made her somewhat cynical or at least a little worldly Ninian is very different from the heroes in other Holt books I ve read being both a kind and decent human being and middle class Pilkada Dan Dinamika Politik Lokal unrelated and bizarre story In and of itself the South AfricaBoer War storyline was kind of interesting in a sort of frontier mystery way There was some good drama and it was much less racist than the Victoria Holt books I ve read that are set in India At the same time though it felt completely Jungle Picture unrelated to the main plot did nothing to advance the mystery surrounding the murder of Davina s father did not provide any sort of growth for the romantic relationship and did not really affect Davina in any substantial way Most of the solutions to the novel s two mysteries happen in a fairly deus ex machina way without Davina needing to exercise any sort of agency or initiative Though she is traumatised by her trial throughout the book she remains naive sometimes to the point of TTSL even though it seems like her experiences should have made her somewhat cynical or at least a little worldly Ninian is very different from the heroes in other Holt books I ve read being both a kind and decent human being and middle class

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Victoria Holt µ 6 Free read Read & Download È PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB µ Victoria Holt Read Snare of Serpents Davina Glentyre's happy young life in Edinburgh was shattered by her mother's death and made even unbearable by her father's sudden marriage to her new governess Her one joy was her fr. Snare of Serpents is pretty much your usual Victoria Holt suspense novel with heroine in peril etc etc Davina Glentyre s peaceful life in Edinburgh is rocked when her beloved governess is fired for stealing and in comes a younger prettier governess A governess who ends up marrying her widowed father A widowed father who ends up dead from arsenic poisoning Being a typical Holt novel Davina is the one who gets the blame course she s innocent put on trial and found Not Proven a stigma that s not so easy to live with FF and Davina eventually decides to start life again in South Africa where no one will whisper those dreaded words behind her back HahThis was an OK read but it did lag at times when the storyline could have moved along a bit faster Most of the twists and turns were fairly easy to guess well before the big reveal and it took waaaaaaaaay too long to wrap things up at the end