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Bookworm Review: The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty

February 11, 2014

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Riverhead, 2012


Synopsis from Goodreads: Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.
 
For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.
 
Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s,’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers,  and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them


My Thoughts: Normally I love books that take place in the 1920s. This was an exception. There were parts of the story I loved and parts I hated. I felt like Moriarty was trying too hard to pack in as much (unnecessary) drama as she could. It was just too much and made it hard to enjoy the story. There was too much going on. I also felt that the story was going at a steady pace and then rushed at the end to hurry and finish the book. I gave this one 3 stars.

   

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  1. Blush and Barbells says

    February 11, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    I really enjoyed this book, but I had the opposite reaction from you – I thought it the book slowed waaaay down once Cora returned to Kansas. So I liked the first half in NYC, but once that part of the book was over, I felt obligated to finish it rather than really savor it.

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  2. thegreatzambini.com says

    February 14, 2014 at 2:13 am

    She has the perfect last name to write mysteries. Did no one notice her last name is pronounced the same way as Sherlock's nemesis`? It's sad it wasn't really to your standards, though. I may try it just for kicks, I suppose.

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  3. Megan C. Stroup says

    February 15, 2014 at 9:21 pm

    Mmm yeah I agree with you. I liked reading from the perspective of a conservative 1920s woman, but the plot just wasn't exciting for me.

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