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Assassin by grace cavendish5/12/2023 Lady Grace is a fairly plain beanpole of a Maid of Honour, who sets herself apart by being, realistically, uncaring of men. The setting is rich of descriptions of food, clothing, events, and historical people, but never is it a boring laundry list. I'm now on the fourth book of this series, and that should tell you how much I've enjoyed her adventures. Lady Grace Cavendish is someone completely set apart from these other characters, given that she is 13 when the series commences and she is incredibly likable in first person narrative. There's the Lady Julia Grey, Lady Emily, Lady Arianna, Lady Rose Summer.well, there are simply endless numbers of these lady sleuths floating around the historical fiction archives, and they all blend together in one conglomerate of snobby, unlikable gals who are either casting eyes at their Sherlock Holmes counterpart or are "flouting conventions" because they are so incredibly original, despite being unbelievably beautiful and rich and etc., etc. Having tried a whole host of these historical mysteries written from the viewpoint of some lady or another, I haven't, until this series, found one that I so thoroughly endorsed.
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