Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW In the novel, Under a Gilded Sky, Out of the blue moon appears  a ragged and hurt visitor who was brought to their Missouri farm's door by 14-year-old Mary-Lou in February 1874. It was fortunate for the stranger that Mary-Lou had been outside because the ferocious gusts had persisted for the previous hours. Since they could remember, Genevieve and Mary-Lou Snow had called Snow Farm their home. However, after losing both their parents within the space of two years, first, their mother and then their father, Ginny and Mary-Lou found it difficult to maintain the farm.  Mr. Lex shows his gratefulness to the sisters by offering to help them at the farm.  The sisters, however, were independent and resolute, and nothing could stop them. While the visitor, Lex, recovered in their parlor, their reputation was maintained by the lie that their father was upstairs, unwell and unable to visit them downstairs. However, as soon as Lex left their home and ente...

  MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW  It was the beginning of the snowfall in London. Lily has returned to Hertfordshire for the Christmas season to join her family and friends of her late husband Freddy. Lily didn't have true friends. She was happy to spend time with the Adler family at the Christmas ball organized by Mrs. Grantham. The neighborhood friends and their families have been invited. Lily has been widowed for three years at such a young age. Mathew Spencer, Lady Adler, Lily, John Adler (Magistrate), Captain Jack Hartley, and his youngest sibling Amelia Noor Hartley, Peter, and his mother Coleridge who have been moved to the neighborhood have been some of the guests of the house party that midnight. Jack Hartley had been the boyhood companion of her husband and had become her own trusted confidant. Jack was most of the time at sea to picture him on land was impossible, that's when at the party he announces his retirement soon.  As the party and guests arrived at ...