The Charm School
by Susan Childress
Taste attributes: science fictionfantasydramamonster/alien/supernaturallinearglossyemotive & stirringhuman spirit/resilience/survivalsocial commentaryrescue/escape/jeopardy
Boxlist takeAn emotional science-fiction novel, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.6 / 5
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About This Book
The captain had abandoned society. She was too unrefined for it. An awkward misfit in an accomplished Boston family, Isadora Peabody yearns to escape her social isolation and sneaks aboard the Silver Swan, bound for Rio, leaving it all behind.Ryan Calhoun, too, had a good family name. But he'd purposely walked away from everything it afforded him.
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- Author
- Susan Childress
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 408
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- Open Library
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