{"id":44219,"date":"2024-10-31T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44219"},"modified":"2024-10-31T22:58:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:58:35","slug":"review-of-the-unselected-journals-of-emma-m-lion-volume-7-by-beth-brower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44219","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Volume 7, by Beth Brower"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion<\/em><\/p>\n

Volume 7<\/p>\n

by Beth Brower<\/p>\n

Rhydon Press, 2023. 302 pages.
\nReview written August 27, 2024, from my own copy, purchased via amazon.com
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Alas! I’ve read all the volumes of Emma M. Lion’s Unselected Journals<\/a><\/em> currently available, so now I will have to wait for Beth Brower to write more. On her website, she says she’s treating this series like a television series with successive seasons (a year’s worth of journals), and there are a few more seasons to go. You’ll notice the volumes are getting longer. When I picked up the first one, it was a quick read, so I thought nothing of quickly consuming the first few volumes. Now there are more pages, which I’m glad of, because I’m well and truly hooked, and I like spending more time in Emma’s world.<\/p>\n

For those I haven’t yet convinced to give these books a try, yes, you should read them, and also yes, you should start at the beginning. I’ll just give tidbits from this volume to let you know I continue to be enthralled with Emma, her friends, and the other quirky characters she encounters.<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned that I appreciate the friendship portrayed between Emma and three very different single gentlemen. By this volume, Emma and one of them are considering whether they should dare pursue a relationship. But at the same time, something accidentally happens to potentially cause a scandal involving Emma and another of them. One must consider appearances in 1884 London!<\/p>\n

Emma is also still trying to make her Aunt Eugenia believe she has a strict chaperone, and she prepares to help Aunt Eugenia’s daughter, the beautiful Arabella, find the most suitable partner of Aunt Eugenia’s choosing during the upcoming Season. All while Emma is trying to ward off the man whom Aunt Eugenia will then allow to marry Emma.<\/p>\n

It’s all told with lots of humor and wit, a big dose of mysterious secrets, and with the gossips of St. Crispian’s beginning to take note. Emma came of age in the last volume, but can she indeed keep her independence? The back of the book promises the next volume “soon,” and it had just better be true!<\/p>\n

[Update: Volume 8 is promised in December 2024! Hooray!]<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Volume 7 by Beth Brower Rhydon Press, 2023. 302 pages. Review written August 27, 2024, from my own copy, purchased via amazon.com Starred Review Alas! I’ve read all the volumes of Emma M. Lion’s Unselected Journals currently available, so now I will have to wait for Beth Brower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-review","category-historical","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44481,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44219\/revisions\/44481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}