{"id":5665,"date":"2016-02-23T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T23:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2022-10-31T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T22:19:01","slug":"a-poisoned-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5665","title":{"rendered":"A Poisoned Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Poisoned Season<\/a><\/em> (2007) Tasha Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A-Poisoned-Season\"<\/a>Set in London ~1890<\/p>\n

The mystery here involves the supposed son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and a thief who seems to specialize in articles once owned by the former queen.<\/p>\n

I do enjoy the dialog in this series.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, Emily\u201d\u2014he grew serious\u2014\u201cif you ever\u2026if Hargreaves doesn\u2019t\u2026if you do need someone\u2026I think you and I could come to a mutually satisfactory understanding.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cReally, Jeremy, that has to be one of the most romantic proposals in all of English history. May I record it in my diary?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI mean it, Em.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cReally, Margaret. No good could come of associating oneself with a person of such ambiguous morals.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing ambiguous about them. He\u2019s bad through and through. Very appealing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could not bring myself to respond; this, however, presented no problem. My mother always preferred soliloquies to dialogue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I did like the thief especially, and it was interesting to see how Emily and Ivy’s relationship changes.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by HarperCollins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Poisoned Season (2007) Tasha Alexander Set in London ~1890 The mystery here involves the supposed son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and a thief who seems to specialize in articles once owned by the former queen. I do enjoy the dialog in this series. \u201cAnd, Emily\u201d\u2014he grew serious\u2014\u201cif you ever\u2026if Hargreaves doesn\u2019t\u2026if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,48,33,8,41,26],"tags":[242,241,557],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-female","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","category-romance","tag-lady-emily","tag-tasha-alexander","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1tn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3116,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3116","url_meta":{"origin":5665,"position":0},"title":"A Poisoned Season","author":"Michelle","date":"August 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A Poisoned Season (2007) Tasha Alexander I read the first book in this series several years ago, and was singularly unimpressed. 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