Tracy Chevalier

The virgin blue

esperanza 

A solid 3.5 
The beginning of the novel, Isabelle's story, created a great expectation in what I believed I would be reading from then on. Isabelle's story was extremely well-written and alluring. The cuts on my fingers prove the rate at which I read her parts (metaphorically, of course. I'm fine). Ella's story, however...I was not as intrigued with it. Perhaps it was the storytelling, the writing, the character itself- but whatever it may be, I found myself having to pace myself to read her chapters, to finish them. To clear it up, it wasn't terrible, Chevalier just wrote a better story with Isabelle that it was obvious to choose which parts were better. I liked it, enjoyed.

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Elli

Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family’s French ancestry. As the novel unfolds—alternating between Ella’s story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earlier—a common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women. Part detective story, part historical fiction, The Virgin Blue is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.

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