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Title: The Revelations of Carey Ravine
Author: Debra Daley
Narrator: Noreen Leighton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-07-16
Publisher: Heron Books
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
London 1770. A time bursting with fortune hunters, the growing trade with the East and the profusion of exotic plants - with a variety of uses.
Carey Ravine and her newly married husband, man-about-town Oliver Nash, are living an extravagant lifestyle based on her small savings and his belief in the next deal. Remarkably, he turns out to be right; he is offered a fortune for writing columns, supporting his patron's burgeoning political and financial career and denigrating his opponents.
But Carey, accosted by desperate strangers even when visiting Nash's wealthy friends, begins to hear and reluctantly be forced to believe another story - not just about his employers but about Nash himself; and even of her father, whom she had thought long dead along with the rest of her family.
Dramatic, dark, full of fascinating insights into eighteenth-century society, The Revelations of Carey Ravine will enthrall you to the very end.
Members Reviews:
A bodice ripper hiding authentic historical narrative
This is an intriguing read, its well-researched historical foundations well disguised with the artifice of the bodice ripper.
The author achieves authenticity in her use of archaic expressions and observations on late-17th century English life, and wraps it around a ripping good yarn.
The heroine pursues the meaning of her life amid the dissipation of a London showing the first signs of the collapse of the empire.
India and its mysteries are tied to the fortunes of the main characters, whose lives are tainted by political and ethical scandal.
How she resolves it all makes for an excellent story.
I willingly reviewed a copy which I received from Hachette NZ.
I didn't love this book. I had to read more than half of it before I started to like it. I don't think it was because of bad writing, more so that I was uninterested in the topic. I thought The Revelations of Carey Ravine would tie into historical fiction, but it didn't really, although having a historical setting.
Regardless of the storyline and plot, I really liked Carey Ravine, or Mrs Nash. The book is told in first person, past tense from her perspective, enabling us to really get to know her. The timestamps of each chapter helped with seeing how much time as passed.
Oliver Nash is nothing but charming. Throughout the book, Carey's revelations give her reason to suspect his loyalty and love. Debra Daley told this part of the tale very well, playing Carey as a middle aged woman very much in love and reluctant to face the truth or accept that she is being lied to.
The second half of the book improved by so much. It's almost as if the two halves were written by different people; the foreshadowing is over and done with, leaving space for plot twists, harder truths for Carey to face, plus a shocking betrayal that slaps her in the face.
I may not have liked The Revelations of Carey Ravine on a whole, but the basic storyline is genuine and interesting. I think the ending is suitable for Carey, not a happy ever after, but maybe it could be, after hard work and effort.
not the best book
i was so excited to read this book. the summary sounded really interesting, and the author is a kiwi â which iâm trying to read more of. unfortunately, i was rather disappointed when i got around to actually reading it.
the plot itself is really bland and boring. hardly anything seems to be happening. my favourite parts where the flashbacks, especially to Careyâs childhood.
