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We rejoin Nella as she brings up her niece Thea, who is the same age Nella was when we first met her. I really enjoyed the interplay between Nella and Thea‘s perspectives, watching Nella‘s near envy of Thea as she tries to find her own way whilst Nella feels stuck, combined with Nella‘s fierce certainty that Thea‘s only safe path is into a similar marriage to that which trapped her, and which Thea resists. Enjoyed the satisfying conclusion 👇

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

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You will learn about love, I am sure. But it might not take the form you originally expected.

Tenth prompt completed for @melissajayne #readyourTBR challenge.
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Good. Follows on from The Miniaturist. Enjoyable story about family and how secrets can affect them.

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I liked this sequel muchly! The style, the characters and the setting. Enough intrigue and uncertainty to keep it flowing.

Rather keen to start this :)

This is a sequel to The Miniaturist, set in Amsterdam in 1705. It deals with the Brandt family and the characters from the first book, October and Nella plus now Thea, daughter of Otto and Marin. Lots of twists, revelations, romance and secrets coming out. I had read The Miniaturist many years ago so really should have read a summary as had forgotten a lot. But still really good.

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It‘s 18 years after The Miniaturist ends and life is about to change again for Nella, Otto, and Thea. Different mistakes, plans, strategies but the same fear, wanting to uphold their reputation & standing. But Thea is a different woman than Nella and will lead this family somewhere else.

Personally I didn‘t enjoy the sequel as much as the excellent original The Miniaturist , all the characters were well drawn and engaging it was just overly long for an rather blah 😑 ending , it would have been better edited down by at least a 100pages, I felt almost at one stage that I‘d grown rather bored with it.So a 3 1/2 stars rating from me , my edition is beautiful with spreyed edges but it will go onto my shelves and never be re read !

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Good story telling here. Not as powerful as the Miniaturist, but as sequels go, it does what it set out to do. Thea Brandt, Otto and Marin‘s daughter, has just turned 18. Her Aunt Thea Johannes‘ widow) seeks her security through (a loveless) marriage, but she‘s intimately involved with, and considers herself betrothed to a man who turns out to be a wastrel. Her escape from everything serves to save her family, revealing long held secrets.

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October List is the above books plus this list of library holds:

6 True Biz
9 Blue Bird Blue Bird
10 Briefly a Delicious Life
12 Delphi
13 The House of Fortune
14 Other Birds
15 Walk the Vanished Earth
16 Our Wives Under the Sea
17 The Book of Goose
18 The Marriage Portrait

‘Every woman is the architect of her own future‘
I was so excited to read this after how much I loved the miniaturist. I was not disappointed. A subtle, elegant and endearing read #pick

An exciting sequel to The Miniaturist.

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This was good but I wasn't blown away. I spent most of the book trying (and failing) to remember what happened in the previous book. This is the follow up to The Miniaturist.

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Pub date is 8/30/22
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Calling this good. Or good enough.

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