Heiress (Daughters of Fortune, #1)

by Susan May Warren

The beautiful heiress daughters of newspaper magnate August Price have been given everything their hearts desire. But what if they want only to be loved--without an enormous price tag attached? When one daughter pursues a desirable marriage, she secures for herself a comfortable and glamorous life. But among the duties of privilege, will she also find the happily-ever-after she seeks? Her sister rejects the trappings of wealth, choosing instead to build a new life on the still-untamed frontier. Will she find happiness in independence or discover that she's left her heart behind in New York's glittering society? Set in the opulent world of the Gilded Age, each woman discovers that being an heiress just might cost her everything--including the chance for true love.

• ISBN10: 1609364767
• ISBN13: 9781609364762
• Publish Date: 1 December 2011 (first published 1 August 2011)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Summerside
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 369
• Language: English

Reviews

[ladygrey]

Even though I only gave it two stars, I'm sure other people would like this book. It's well written; I liked the way it stretched across time and the shifts in society and culture that created was almost interesting.

At first the whole thing seemed so predictable. And it was because everything I expected, happened. But then the story twisted and I found that almost innovative.

I only had two issues with it.
1 - there was too much description. Which is exactly the sort of thing other people would really enjoy. They would like how thoroughly she evoked the setting and history. I got distracted reading a paragraph detailing the types of trees out her window or the types of cars in the motor race. I'm just not a description person.

2 - I couldn't stand Jinx. The choices she made after the twist completely galled. I knew she was going to be redeemed and still I couldn't stand her. I almost thought I couldn't stand Esme when I thought she was going to do the same thing, but then she didn't. How do you have everything you want right in front of you, everything working out so perfectly and turn away from it? It's so antithetical to everything in me I almost couldn't stand it.. That, more than anything, is why I gave it two stars. I don't care how it ended, reading it bothered me.

[cherryblossommj]

Susie was one of the first authors that I discovered back when I stumbled across Liz Curtis Higgs and began my all-consuming love of Christian Historical Fiction. It was her Heirs of Anton series. So now that I find she is writing another new series set in the "opulent world of the Gilded Age" I could help but be intrigued! This era seems to be a poplar one as I've also gotten my hands on one from Nancy Moser and before that Siri Mitchell. I could not wait to see Susie's take on it!

At about 183 pages of this 380 page novel I can already say I feel like I've already read two full novels in this short page length with the sisters two stories. Both of romance and tragedy. I'm waiting for Oliver to walk up and say, oh it was a mistake and for Bennett to look out over the sea and return. Alas.

At just over halfway through I felt like I'm in another novel, this time a western. This is awesome. You get a gilded age adventure and a prairie romance too! As the character comes up, I am remembering all my history bullet points on Teddy Roosevelt phrases and I think Susie is hitting them all. In finishing another segment I promise these could be individual novels. Changing characters and following along in history it is as if the Heirs of Anton series were one long book instead of four shorter ones.

I did not expect a thing. Honestly I haven't finished reading any of the Golden Era novels except Cara Lynn James first one as it came across. After finishing this one I'm desperate for more. I want to go back to the Moser and Mitchell books and get more of the time and the era. I want to find the rest of James series and drink it all in. I cannot wait for more Daughters of Fortune. I cannot even imagine what comes next. Every twist and turn took me by surprise and I was rereading sections because I was just sure that I misunderstood. Not after everything, could that happen! - I kept saying to myself. But it did. Every thing that happened made things lead to the next. It reminds me of endings that I imagined for tragic movies that did not end as I wished in their romance.

This was and is awesome.

*Thanks to Litfuse Publicity for providing a copy for review.*

Originally posted: http://creativemadnessmama.com/blog/2011/09/23/heiress-by-susan-may-warren/