The Last of the Stanfields Download

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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

ISBN: B079DPT97R
Title: The Last of the Stanfields Pdf

A mystery, a love story, and a search through a shadowy past. Two strangers unite in this novel of family secrets by international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most read contemporary French author in the world.

When London journalist Eleanor-Rigby Donovan receives an anonymous letter alluding to a crime committed by her deceased mother, her life is turned upside down. It points her to a bar on the Baltimore Harbor, where she finds a stranger who has received the same mysterious letter about his own mother. Together, Eleanor-Rigby and this young man, George-Harrison Collins, embark on a quest through the shadowy past of the Stanfields, a moneyed Maryland family full of unimaginable secrets. These secrets will transport them back decades, across continents, and to a mysterious crime long buried…until now.

Strains credibility TOO FAR! I do not remember ever reviewing a book I had not finished, but this one was irredeemable.Incredibly implausible premise, but the author is supposedly the most popular author in France, and it was free, so I picked it up and persisted through 50 pages because the writing style is so engaging. There is just too much suspension of disbelief to swallow. For example, in 1980 the book claims women in Baltimore were not allowed to be writers on papers, just researchers. I am sure that was not true. For example, I knew the woman who was the Baltimore Sunpaper restaurant critic in 1975, and there were women reporters on the paper as well. And one night a bunch of friends get together and decide to start their own paper, and one of them, who is an accountant for Procter and Gamble and not even in the industry, sits down and works up their business plan including staffing and pay that evening! See why it strains my little critical senses? So far the Maryland setting does not seem too true-to-life either, and I have lived here all my life.I find the author's bio also rather implausible. Why would an author who lives in New York need a translator? And doesn't he sound like a bit too much of a polymath? I was prepared to find out the bio is also fiction, but I looked him up, and the part about his popularity is accurate! Mon dieu!Very discouraging The only kindle first book that seemed even remotely acceptable to my reading preferences in many months, and I had to stop reading it before I was even 25% through. It only took a few chapters for the author to degenerate into sexual scenarios. Not explicit or extended, but each time there was a little more detail included. I had to make a decision - keep reading, in hopes that it never got any worse, or keep reading, get really hooked on the story (which seemed interesting enough), and find that the author was so enthralled with including his sexual fantasies that it just became unreadable. Since I have never known an author to stop building on sexual scenarios once he got started, I chose to remove the book from my device. I am writing this review to warn others who might not appreciate lewdness in their reading material.You Won't See It Coming! Marc Levy is an excellent storyteller. His most recent book, THE LAST OF THE STANFIELDS, is no exception. I love the way he braided three distinctly different strands of time together to create one captivating story. And it has a twist at the end. Trust me, you won't see it coming!