Another excellent book...

Good read. Liked the characters and story flow. Fascinating family. Couldn't put the book down. Recommend reading. Given copy by NetGalley for honest review.

Effie Watson, daughter of a Victorian banker, becomes one of the richest women of the world, despite the restrictions on women of that era. She's tough, travels in the top layers of society, but doesn't seem to be able to find happiness. The book is very interesting from a historical perspective, but somehow I just couldn't like Effie. Thank you Netgalley, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC and Graham Masterton for providing me with this book in return foran unbiased review.

I was blessed enough to receive a free ebook copy of this book via NetGally in exchange for my honest review which is as follows:

This book in my personal opinion is full of dark moments with some shades of gray through out, it's like a 1920's version of "Game of Thrones" but with bankers. Overall I personally rate this book a 6/10.

This is one of those “good bad” books – you’re well aware while you’re reading it just how bad it is but somehow you just can’t stop reading. That’s how I felt all the way through this admittedly well-researched saga of a Scottish banking family, the daughter of which decides to step outside her class, time and the constraints of being a woman to become a rich and successful banker herself. There were aspects of the novel I enjoyed – the way she achieved her goal, the descriptions of the banking world, the various settings which were well done, the details of clothes and food and décor, which, whilst sometimes irritating, did at least give a certain authenticity to the narrative, and the very fact that a strong woman made it to the top held a certain fascination. But the bad bits really were quite bad. For a start there are some very improbable plot twists and much stereotyped characterisation and dialogue. And worst of all quite a lot of soft porn thrown into the mix, really quite extraneously to the story and actually quite offensive and out of place in such an otherwise realistic novel. But something kept me hanging on in there to the bitter end – so it can’t have been all bad!