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A Dangerous Mourning by Anne Perry

This is the second William Monk book and it's the same as the first but with less of the interesting parts and more of the moralising, I mean educational lectures on Victorian life which is odd seeing it still feels it could take place any time. It takes place in a world populated by bored people. The men are bored because they're reliant on their family for money and therefore have nothing to do. The women are bored because they're women and therefore have nothing to do. The servants are bored because they're servants and therefore have no prospects of anything interesting happening. The poor are aren't bored because they're too busy dying and/or robbing each other.

Annoying books because if the educational lectures and constant repeating of what every one knows was cuts, and the main characters given that space to develop in, they'd be good reading. I don't think I'll bother with the next one, which is apparently the same but worse than the first two.

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