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monisha19's review
5.0
Love Sir Percy... This is the favourite book of the series ... Every time the way Sir Percy outwits Chauvelin it was brilliant
the_jesus_fandom's review against another edition
2.0
This book is made up of short stories, which is not really my thing. The reason is that these are the types of adventures I want to binge. I want to read for hours. And this works if it's one long story. But if the books is just a bunch of different adventures after each other, I forget what happens because I read too many different stories in too short a time.
It's still really fun to see all the different sides of Percy's work in France. But it did get very easy to predict which characters were Percy or league members in disguise.
It's still really fun to see all the different sides of Percy's work in France. But it did get very easy to predict which characters were Percy or league members in disguise.
smithological_stories's review
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
marjolaine_lafreniere's review against another edition
3.0
The inter-connected short stories is a really cute concept, and well done here. However, trying to keep up with the timeline and the jumping around time is starting to give me a headache.
kat_the_bookcat's review against another edition
3.0
Such a fun little series of shorts! I'm not usually a fan of short stories, but when I already have some knowledge of the characters and I can just enjoy them instead of struggling to keep up with the events that are always happening so quickly, I do like them. And that's what this was. It was our darling Scarlet Pimpernel getting up to mischief and Chauvelin and other French Revolutionaries trying to catch him. That's really all it was. But oh, it is so much fun to see Chauvelin get beat over and over again.
holtfan's review against another edition
4.0
A collection of short stories, the only reason this book doesn't get my usual adoring five stars is it got kind of...predictable. While the costumes are truly genius and clever, it was always Percy. Eventually I grew somewhat bored. Every now and then a story would pop that would save it from three stars, and I would certainly reccomend it to Scarlet Pimpernel fans, but I wouldn't call it the best work of Orczy.
allison_on_a_book_break's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
helwyse's review against another edition
3.0
My wish has been answered - this book contains short Scarlet Pimpernel stories which show the workings of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, and a few examples of successful rescue missions. Some are more entertaining than others, but altogether they are fine. Very typical of Orczy's style, to the extent that I got a little bored by the end. The plots and twists are all similar: Sir Percy always saves the day, by using various disguises which always include one very grimy one and one in which he impersonates the authorities to intercept the person he is about to save from imprisonment and death. Orczy does play around with different narrators and points of vue, but that doesn't really make much of a difference.
jjchoe15's review against another edition
3.0
more of a series of short stories of multiple rescues rather than one grand one