Reviews for Blackground

The average rating for Blackground based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-28 00:00:00 Ted Ramsay I zoomed through this completely breathlessly, but I'm not entirely sure everyone's motivations made sense at the end ... plus one plot twist was completely obvious to me from the beginning, so it didn't work at taking me by surprise later. Still, I really enjoyed this, and will probably reread it sometime. Sorry for the very sketchy review, but it's a suspense novel with a not-entirely-reliable narrator, so the less known about it, the better!

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-03 00:00:00 James Rennie Actress Cat Conwil has landed a leading role in a new miniseries ("Dodo and Rosy", based on a book whose title is "a place name that was imaginary, and not interesting anyway" -- sound familiar?). Through this job, she meets James Tybold, Lord Fortuneswell, who pursues her relentlessly until she agrees to marry him. But during their romantic Venetian honeymoon, Cat suddenly realizes that she's met Ty before...and this revelation changes their relationship utterly. Like Foul Matter, much of Blackground is an exploration of the heroine's past, though here the present drama is more important (and past and present are not very well balanced). The plot is on crack, as usual, but I found neurotic, hypochondriac Cat compelling, so I enjoyed it anyway.