Kirkland Revels by Victoria Holt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
An entertaining story. In a way sad. Like romances, it has the familiar patterns. A young woman who in some way, must prove herself. A man who is reviled at first, comes to become attractive. Status, wealth and family in the end. I don’t think the “Alfred Hitchcock” statement on the cover is to be taken too seriously. What sad about it is that death and murder are all too horrid but all too easy going. Happy endings eliminate all. The characters are, of course, flat, and the main motive of the story is to change how the reader feels about them all. In that sense, it is successful.
