She Rises (Audible Audio Edition) Kate Worsley Clare Corbett Thomas Judd Whole Story Audiobooks Books
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It is 1740 and when Louise Fletcher is offered work as a maid in the bustling port of Harwich she leaps at the chance.
Fifteen-year old Luke is in a Harwich tavern when it is raided by His Majesty's Navy and he is press ganged and sent to sea on board the warship Essex. The worlds they find are more dangerous and more exciting than they could ever have imagined...
She Rises (Audible Audio Edition) Kate Worsley Clare Corbett Thomas Judd Whole Story Audiobooks Books
"She Rises" is a fast-paced, riveting adventure yarn involving the fates of a brother and sister in English seaports and on the high seas in the 1740s. It's a great combination of romance and gritty realism with a fabulous plot twist and a surprising but fitting conclusion. Worsley creates compelling characters, puts them in precarious situations, and gives them great scenes and dialogue. Her descriptive prose, especially of the sailors' work aboard ship, is riveting. Each chapter includes some dramatic event or revelation that moves the action forward and makes you want to read on to see what happens next. In the author's laser-like focus and storytelling brio, it reminded me a bit of Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin. Readers who like Sarah Waters' historical fiction should also enjoy it. I found "She Rises" incredibly entertaining and highly recommend it.Product details
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She Rises (Audible Audio Edition) Kate Worsley Clare Corbett Thomas Judd Whole Story Audiobooks Books Reviews
The single star is awarded for the brilliant form of the book (juxtaposing the past and the present points of view and converging the climax of each in a single chapter - bravo!). But unfortunately, that is the only virtue of the story.
I picked up this novel at a thrift store. I opened the front cover and the person who donated it had left a review on a yellow Post-It note reading, "Lesbians and pirates. And not even the good kind. Looks sophisticated in hand, though. 2/10." It gave me such a good laugh that I went back the next day and bought the book for a buck, just to own the Post-It note.
But unfortunately, the Post-It note was spot on. And I'll add my own grievances I don't like a single character. I didn't care what happened to any of them. I thought they were all vile human beings. The descriptions of everything—from butter-making to Navy life to small pox to the sexual encounters—they were all disgusting. If words could reek, this book would be very difficult to read for the stench. And this probably wasn't intentional (just a natural product of being a raging feminist first and foremost) but every single male character was written in a fiercely negative light. The author tried to redeem Nick, but too little too late, my friend. Here's some friendly advice to the author You hate men. I get it. Get yourself some counseling.
I read the novel to find out what "not even the good kind" of lesbians and pirates meant. I definitely found out. If there was one word to describe my feelings towards this book, it would be "yuck."
Have I already reviewed this? Nonetheless, I'm about to go back for a second read. It starts out slow but quickly picks up the speed after the exposition, making those patient enough to sit it out satisfied. Even if you are not a historical fiction person (like myself) you will definitely find something to love about this book.
I found this one of most confusing books I've ever read! To start I found it intriguing and interesting but as the tale progressed I found it very hard to decipher just who was who, the characters became entwined and even though I persevered and read the whole book it was very hard to follow.
I wanted to read this book because I liked the cover so much. The story didn't sound like something I would normally read, but then again it didn't sound like something I'd hate.
The writing was gorgeous. I got a sense of the time this took place, as well as the setting and characters. This was a lot sexier than novels of this ilk usually are, which wasn't necessarily bad, just different.
I didn't expect to be pulled into the stories of Louisa and Luke, told in alternating chapters, but I really was. I wasn't expecting much from this book, but then the author brought the tales together in a way that completely took me by surprise.
But that ending ... WHY. *sobs*
3.5 stars.
Kate Worsley's novel, "She Rises," is the story of a time, a place, and characters, none of which are really what they seem to be. From a dirt-poor farming family, Louise Fletcher and Luke Fletcher in different ways disappear from the farm, she to become a lady's maid, he to be Shanghai'd and pressed into service on a sailing warship. These characters are, of course, also revealed in their relationships with their family, fellow workers, and most of all, targeted love objects, in this case persons of the same gender.
Louise works hard to learn to be a lady's maid in an upper class household. While Luke, pressed into service, is sheltered by a great, hulking man, Nick, who with his gangling brute strength protects his young protege. In both cases, man and woman, the Fletchers fell in love with their protectors - loves that are ultimately reciprocated and become physical.
"She Rises" has a complicated plot as the fortunes of all the major players make twists and turns in their social milieu (upper class home and naval warship) but also as their minds and hearts revolve about their changing needs and desires.
As the narrative path of the plot unfolds, we are introduced to wonderfully clear pictures of the 18th century and its upper class denizens and a sailing warship including its various sailors at a time when impressment was not unusual. The novel is especially interesting in that author Worsley presents these unusual characters against the relatively staid 18th Century colonial backdrop.
Although it was very interesting to consider, one finds the premises of the plot difficult to believe - that these relationships could play out on the stage of the time. In that vein, too, the anachronistic language that sometimes creeps into the text does serious damage to readers' "suspension of incredulity," e.g., "cut me some slack." ("Cut me some slack" in 1740?" I don't think so.) Another problem is that the separation of the brother/sister chapters interrupts the action, weakening the suspense the reader has built following the protagonists.
At the same time, there are passages in this novel that are truly wonderful, e.g. "Even now, I could have swung out to block your path with my tattooed arm and bellow some sentimental sweetheart ditty. Had the deep shameful gratification of seeing you clutch up your skirts, avert your head, as my shipmates shower us both with laughter. Snuffed up your ladylike scent, lusted after that soft and yielding flesh within its genteel carapace, all a-quiver at my insolence. How gratifying would have been your angered stare, your hot retort. The sweet pulsing pause while you bid me let you by, the perturbed swish of your skirts. And then, the longing lingering view of your figure, retreating until you were lost in the crowds but stored away for ever in my mind's gallery of most desirable females."
So, with that evidence, you see, not all is lost in this first novel and I look forward to more work by this talented newby.
"She Rises" is a fast-paced, riveting adventure yarn involving the fates of a brother and sister in English seaports and on the high seas in the 1740s. It's a great combination of romance and gritty realism with a fabulous plot twist and a surprising but fitting conclusion. Worsley creates compelling characters, puts them in precarious situations, and gives them great scenes and dialogue. Her descriptive prose, especially of the sailors' work aboard ship, is riveting. Each chapter includes some dramatic event or revelation that moves the action forward and makes you want to read on to see what happens next. In the author's laser-like focus and storytelling brio, it reminded me a bit of Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin. Readers who like Sarah Waters' historical fiction should also enjoy it. I found "She Rises" incredibly entertaining and highly recommend it.
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