Die Entführung der Delia Wright

Solide Kriminalgeschichte. Stellenweise zieht sich die Handlung etwas und wirkt langatmig, was den Lesefluss bremst. Insgesamt ist es unterhaltsam, aber nicht durchgehend mitreißend. Die Charaktere sind stellenweise echt interessant, mein Favorit war wohl der Bruder des Protagonisten.

I just should stop buying books on a whim that I wasn't planning on getting. I read a few pages in the bookstore and really liked the writing style, especially the humor, and was under the impression that this really wanted to utilize the time period it is set it. I was wrong about that. My biggest problem with the book is that the characters, especially the good guys, feel like they're from our century: they talk like modern people, they have moral codes like modern people... If you don't mind this disconnect, you can probably enjoy this book, but it was really distracting for me. I also couldn't connect to Timothy: I liked his voice, but he's too sentimental and so forced to be likable and a "nice guy". The story idea was ok and the author tried to teach some historic events in a natural way, but since the whole book didn't feel natural to me I couldn't enjoy it much. The scenes that actually advanced the plot also sometimes lost me, the strength of the author seems to be in the more quite scenes. I definitely see an audience for this, but it isn't me and it probably isn't people who read a lot of historical fiction.