The Napoleonic Wars have been a backdrop to most of the series and come to the fore in this one. At the beginning of the novel, Ross is summoned to London. It is 1815, more than 30 years since the start of the series. It was a nice change to have most of this penultimate novel of the Poldark Saga be more about Ross and Demelza than their children. I have one excuse besides too many books, too little time, and that is that some of them have been hard to locate. I am getting behind on that project, having read hardly any of the books for the most recent years. You can see the shortlist on my Man Booker Prize Project page. The shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker prize was recently announced. The Miller’s Dance Day 1069: The Twisted SwordĪ short side note before starting my review for today. I am happy to have finished this series even though I only found the later books moderately interesting. In all, although this novel was more interesting than some of the others, I felt sometimes as if Graham was trying to juggle too many balls. Valentine at first leads a life of dissipation, but when he realizes that his putative father, George Warleggan, is interesting himself in his son, he decides he cannot leave young George to be raised by old George, as he was. When Valentine’s latest mistress is a victim and he is questioned about it, his wife, Selina, has had enough and leaves with their son, George. Someone has been killing young women in the area.
They become entangled with another subplot, a murder mystery.
Valentine Warleggan’s affairs are also a concern of the novel. But a French empresario, Maurice Valéry, offers her a part in an opera in Rouen and himself. But Clowance feels still half in love with Stephen and half hates him because of his lies.īella has been courted by Christopher Havergal for years, and he helps her find a voice teacher in London and begin her career as a singer. Clowance is now a widow, but she has two suitors, Captain Philip Prideaux, a former soldier, and Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, who has been in love with Clowance since she was a girl. Set in 1818, Bella Poldark is principally concerned with the romances of the two Poldark daughters, Clowance and Bella. I was surprised to find it introducing some new characters while hardly mentioning some who featured strongly in the other books. It resolves some of the continuing subplots but not others. This novel is not exactly what you might expect of the last of a series.
I enjoyed the first six books very much but was only mildly interested in the others and finally only continued because I wanted to finish the series. I’ve finally finished the last of 12 books in the Poldark series with Bella Poldark.
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