Marya reviewed What\'s Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen
Review of "What\\'s Bred in the Bone" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
As literature this is a preposterous pile of Victorian sentimental novel cliches, including identical twins of mysterious parentage, mistaken identity, a Bad Man and more than one Man with a Secret Past, gypsy clairvoyance and snake charming, exile to the diamond mines of South Africa, and of course lots of True Love, but it's engagingly written and the heroine has some grit. It might be good summer reading if you like old-fashioned genre fiction. There are a couple of shockingly racist bits but they go by quickly.