is anyone reading Lara Parker's latest DS fiction 'Heiress of Collinwood'?
i'm not generally a fan of her writing but this one is centered on Victoria so i picked it up. without "spoiling" too much i'm on page 110 in a state of complete bewilderment.
i suppose it's her story and she can take it where she wants to. but what i'm most struck by is her complete lack of understanding/memory of the basic structure of the original story. her work seems to take place in some sort of "parallel time"variation of events. i have no idea how she came up with the outline of this plot?
Vicki as a television reporter in Bangor in 1972? she really seems to have no memory at all of what actually happened to the character in the OS. or that Maggie replaced her as Collinwood governess. the dates and timelines of everything is completely
wrong. none of it lines up with OS canon. none of it makes sense.
not surprisingly she also doesn't seem to understand the fundamental nature of the character. what made Vicki "tick".
i'm trying enjoy it as a "stand alone" story but the huge gaps in continuity are extremely distracting. i can really only compare her work to an "inspired by" story along the lines of the Ross novels or the Dynamite comics more than OS continuity.
anyone looking to her work for OS plot "resolutions" is in for a rude awakening.