Review/recenzija: Tessa Dare: A Week to be Wicked/Tjedan dana za ljubav
Recenzija na hrvatskom nalazi se ispod recenzije na engleskom ??
Welcome back to the Spindle Cove, a haven for all of those different and special among the boring and ordinary. Today, we're beginning the journey of Minerva and Colin, so have your horses at ready ??
I present you A Week to be Wicked, a second novel in Spindle Cove series by Tessa Dare. You can read about its prequel, A Night to Surrender here.
Minerva Highwood is far from being as gracious and beautiful as her sisters, but she is smart, more so than the rest of her family can even understand.
She spends her days reading and educating herself, researching and exploring the cove, and finally, that grants her an invitation to Edinburgh, to present her discoveries. The journey she has to make is a perfect opportunity to keep the rake Payne away from her sisters. So she offers him money for his company and protection.
Colin has no intention to go with Minerva, neither does he believe it would be possible to achieve what she wishes for, but when she makes him choose between going with her and letting her travel alone and by that, putting her in danger, he has no choice.
The two of them run, chasing for a better future, to change the world.
What would you do if a guy/girl was planning your first date and said something like: "Would you like to go cave diving with me so I could show you a footprint of a extinct beast?"
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| Hm? Hm? Would you? ?? |
Well, my question was a simplified version, but a pretty similar thing did happen to our Colin. If he knew how crazy his life would become after knowing that bookworm, Miranda, he would've never glanced twice in the direction of Highwood family.
This couple, Miranda and Colin, is my favorite in this genre. Characters like those two make me love historical romances. They're funny and brave, their dialogues witty, but meaningful.
Here we have a woman who spends days digging in the dirt just to find evidence of existence of an animal she has never even heard before (we know it as a type of a dinosaur). Can it get better than that? After all, she is a bookworm ??
Minerva is a woman and an explorer, two things that, in her time, were impossible to imagine, let alone accept. A Week to be Wicked faces us with the proof of how the world could've been a different place if women were allowed to be equal to men.
The dynamics of her relationship with Colin always makes me laugh, but it also puts in motion happenings in the Spindle Cove, those that make us wonder about the characters we've left there, e.g. Kate and Thorne. After reading this novel, I'm left with no choice but to read the next one, A Lady by Midnight. You can expect a review very soon.
What do you think about the novels by Tessa Dare? Any thoughts?
Happy reading,
Rose ?
Sje�ate se Vretenaste uvale? Onog divnog, mirnog, sasvim obi�nog mjesta�ca u kojem su uto�i�te na�li pomalo jedinstveni ljudi, oni druga�iji me�u obi�nima? E, pa, danas vas ponovo vodim tamo, ovaj puta u dru�tvu nevjerojatnih Minerve i Colina.
Tjedan dana za ljubav drugi je dio serijala Tesse Dare iz Naklade Neptun, a nastavlja pri�u o stanovnicima Vretenaste uvale nakon avantura iz prvog nastavka, No� predaje.
Minerva Highwood ne posjeduje ljepotu i gracioznost poput druge dvije njezine sestre, ali zato se mo�e podi�iti zavidnom razinom inteligencije kojom ostatak njezine okoline ba� i ne raspola�e. Zahvaljuju� njoj, postala je �lanom presti�nog �kotskog dru�tva i vrhunska paleontologinja. To �lanstvo nagne ju na odlazak u �kotsku, �to se savr�eno sla�e s planom da razvratnika najgore vrste, lorda Paynea, dr�i podalje od svoje sestre.
Minerva Colinu ponudi pet stotina funti da odglumi kako bje�i s njome i otprati ju do njezina odredi�ta.
Colin nema nikakvu namjeru pratiti ju na tom suludom putu niti pa vjeruje da je mogu�e ostvariti �to si je mlada dama zamislila, ali problem je u tome da je ona �ensko. I ona je odlu�ila da ide.
Postavljen pred gotov �in, ko�iju u koju se Minerva ukrcava, Colin mora odlu�iti. Ho�e li ostaviti mladu �enu na milost i nemilost svim budu�im neda�ama ili popustiti i krenuti s njome, to jest, napraviti jedinu stvar koju nikako ne �eli?
�to biste rekli da vam cura ili de�ko za prvi spoj predlo�e ne�to tipa: "Hej, �e�eru, jesi za to da ronimo u mra�noj �pilji pa da ti poka�em otisak stopala izumrlog gu�tera?"
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| Ho�e�? Hm? Hm? ?? |
Istina, moje pitanje jest pojednostavljena verzija doga�aja koji se zbio u knjizi, ali stoji da se sli�na stvar dogodila na�em Colinu. Nije imao pojma kakva �e ga sudba sna�i kad mu knji�ki moljac, Minerva, jednom pristupi ili se nikad ne bi usudio ni pogledavati u smjeru Highwoodica.
Ovaj par generalno mi je jedan od najzanimljivijih me�u protagonistima povijesnih ljubavnih romana. Humoristi�ni su, puni dosjetki i me�usobnog zadirkivanja. Uz to su i nevjerojatno realisti�ni.
Kao �to smo u prvom nastavku imali lika koji je ovce nastojao rastjerati eksplozijom baruta (btw. to je isto bila Colinova ideja ??) tako u ovom romanu imamo djevojku �iji opis savr�enog dana uklju�uje prou�avanje skamenjenih tragova �ivotinja, za koje ona nikad nije ni �ula, a koje mi danas poznajemo kao vrstu dinosaura (pod uvjetom da ste guglali o �emu se radi, ina�e i dalje nemamo pojma ??).
Minerva je bila djevojka i znanstvenica, dvije stvari koje je u njeno doba bilo nevjerojatno zamisliti kao karakteristiku iste osobe, a u ovom romanu vidimo koliko su dalekose�ne bile posljedice toga �to joj nije dozvoljeno da bude ravnopravna mu�karcima.
Dinamika njezine i Colinove veze garantira zabavu i mami osmijeh na lice. Njihov bijeg uzburkao je Vretenastu uvalu i postavio je temelje novog zapleta, pa sad kad sam pro�itala i ovaj nastavak, ne preostaje mi ni�ta drugo nego baciti se na tre�i. Thorne i Kate me �ekaju...
Kako vi stojite s Tessinim knjigama? Ako jo� niste, svakako ih potra�ite. Ove jaaaako preporu�ujem.
Ne zaboravite baciti pogled na web stranicu Naklade Neptun gdje sve naslove mo�ete naru�iti po najisplativijim cijenama i uz besplatnu po�tarinu.
Do sljede�eg tjedna i nove pri�e, primite pozdrave od
Rose ?
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