Four generations and two countries spans this family saga of Lucinda Riley, focusing on the related with a Maharaja family Anahita Chaval stands. Your life begins in 1900, it crosses the rich palaces of India as far as the so much sober England, where she loses her heart, and again. Back to their homeland, where they died in 2001 Ten years later, makes her great grandson Ari on the way to England to unlock the secrets of his great-grandmother in terms of their life spent there years and their 1922 Prodigal Son.
On the stately mansion of the Lords of Astbury he meets the famous American actress Rebecca who just einspielt a movie there. Paparazzi besieged because of their engagement, they hardly ventured down from the confined land and has teamed up with the elusive last Lord of Astbury friends. But why react this way abneigend on Aris attempts, the family history of Astburys and the unraveling of Anahita?
Lucinda Riley has succeeded in this book what I have accused her previous book The Light Behind the Window as a criticism: captivates Both Damals- and the time for action now. She writes engaging, and designed primarily characters with whom we can sympathize. Her plot some surprises and is not at least been completely predictable for me, which is very important in this kind of novels in my opinion.
But in my eyes also has this novel quite minor weaknesses: the behavior and the decisions taken do not always fit with how the characters have been actually described. Ari is for example the one hand represented as a favorite son of his mother, because he is a so engaging, has fundamentally good nature, on the other hand is just he who can be tempted by money, so much work that it the manuscript of his great-grandmother, which it leads ultimately to England alone for ten years lie in a drawer. Another weakness, but this is very subjective, I see in the premonitions Anahitas because although I think certainly on intuition, but not to clairvoyance. And finally: The language of dialogues, I feel, unlike for example in Katherine Webb, not always adapted at that time, but to modern. Since I'm not a native speaker, of course, I would like here but not too far out on a limb.
Overall, The Midnight Rose is but really recommended because the novel has met my expectations fully met and I durchgeschmökert me in two days.
