House of a Thousand Lanterns

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Summary: Edge of your seat, nail biting, heart pounding GREAT!!!!!!
Review: A must read for all Holt fan

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Summary: Yawn.....are we done yet?
Review: I am a huge fan of Victoria Holt, but this storyline isn't her best. You spend most of the book waiting for Jane to move to Hong Kong to live in the House of a Thousand Lanterns. Jane was the only protagonist that I felt would deserve her demise due to her blinded devotion to her first husband. Oh...her second husband was not old...in his early 50's.
I also found the book filled with stereotypes against the Chinese and women in general. I don't think it was on purpose.
Read this book to add to your Victoria Holt collection, just don't expect too much from it.

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Summary: Excellent combination of romance and suspense!
Review: I couldn't put this book down! Once again, Victoria Holt has proved to me what a thrilling and mysterious romance-suspense writer she is. She has been able to blend just the right amount of supense and mystery to this book. I also appreciate how she interwines the sweet and clean romance into it, not like some books that I have read where there is just too much of it. I definatly recommend this book, the ending is completely unpredictable!

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Summary: A disappointing work by Holt
Review: I have forced myself to finish this book. There is no connection between "the Chinese way" and the heroine. Everything is throughly stereotypical. If you want something exotic, look elsewhere. This book is a bore.

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Summary: A Real Page-Turner!
Review: Jane soon realized that her "marriage" isn't all that it seems. The man she thought was her husband is actually married to someone else! She also finds out that is pregnant. To provide for her son, she marries her kind, elderly employer "in name only". They travel to Hong Kong to "The House of A Thousand Lanterns" where her life changes forever. Her son's father arrives, a widower, to find his son and marry Jane. Jane's husband dies, and strange things begin to happen. Will she marry her son's father? Did he kill her husband? Is he trying to kill her? And what is the secret in "The House of a Thousand Lanterns"?

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Summary: Yawn.....are we done yet?
Review: Jane soon realized that her "marriage" isn't all that it seems. The man she thought was her husband is actually married to someone else! She also finds out that is pregnant. To provide for her son, she marries her kind, elderly employer "in name only". They travel to Hong Kong to "The House of A Thousand Lanterns" where her life changes forever. Her son's father arrives, a widower, to find his son and marry Jane. Jane's husband dies, and strange things begin to happen. Will she marry her son's father? Did he kill her husband? Is he trying to kill her? And what is the secret in "The House of a Thousand Lanterns"?

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Summary: A Real Page-Turner!
Review: Jane soon realized that her "marriage" isn't all that it seems. The man she thought was her husband is actually married to someone else! She also finds out that is pregnant. To provide for her son, she marries her kind, elderly employer "in name only". They travel to Hong Kong to "The House of A Thousand Lanterns" where her life changes forever. Her son's father arrives, a widower, to find his son and marry Jane. Jane's husband dies, and strange things begin to happen. Will she marry her son's father? Did he kill her husband? Is he trying to kill her? And what is the secret in "The House of a Thousand Lanterns"?

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Summary: The most interesting book I've read
Review: The House of a Thousand Lanterns has been the most interesting book I've read. The plot can be misleading and results in quite a shock once you reach the end of the book, just like all the other Holt novels. It is a mystery/romance story. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys love stories with a little action.

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Summary: Dazzling, fun reading
Review: This isn't the best Victoria Holt novel, but her books never fail to engage the reader with exotic locations, suspense and romance. So, I gave it 5 stars anyway...I couldn't put this down and the ending was quite effective...