Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Suffragette Mystery, 1912

 I'm finally reviewing a novel that is allowing me to return to Flying High Reviews three months after I last posted here.  It does center on a strong female protagonist.  I'd like to try to read those more frequently. 

I purchased Lady Rights a Wrong from my public library's bookstore. I was hoping that the suffragette protagonist, Lady Cecilia Bates, would be a character who would capture my interest.  

Cecilia is investigating the death of suffragette leader, Amelia Price, which seems to be an accident.    

                                     

 

Cecilia wanted to learn how to ride a bicycle.  Once you've learned that skill, it makes you more independent.  Unfortunately, as I know from experience, learning to ride a bicycle involves a great deal of falling before you've mastered it.  In that era, it would be considered quite improper for a lady to be seen falling. 

I was engaged by this book through a good proportion of my reading process, but I have to say that I eventually found it tiresome.  I imagine I will give it a B- grade which would be two stars on Goodreads.