Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of her time in a world where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. So what do you guys think? Am I being too harsh? Should I just let people enjoy what they enjoy?.Īlso, one final thing. Shades of Milk and Honey Series: Glamourist Histories 1 on AugPages: 304 Add to Goodreads. In fact I'll go as far as to say that if you like Milk and Honey you are quite frankly immoral. Which is to say that they're both easy to read, easy to understand, and therefore people who don't read alot all of sudden can say they've read and understood something. However, Milk and Honey just seems to go in the opposite direction by literally just putting words that make sense one after the other to which people exclaim 'this is the best thing I have ever read' or 'Milk and Honey changed my life'Ĭan someone describe my feelings more eloquently than me? Am I alone in this? My own theory is that people like Milk and Honey for the same reason they - and this is controversial - like the Alchemist. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love in a world where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. I haven't read alot of it as I find it sometimes too difficult to understand what the author is trying to say. Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer:Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. I must say though I am not the biggest fan of poetry it self. It's litterally just fragmented sentences. Milk and Honey is the worst thing I have ever read.Īm I missing something? Am I too stupid to comprehend? Do I not understand poetry?

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