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Ebook About In the waning years of Queen Victoria’s reign, a brilliant daughter is born to an aristocratic, military family in Prussia. A quirk of inheritance law allows Margarethe von Stahle to inherit her family’s titles. Her elders collaborate to educate her to take on her future duties, which include administering her family estates and supporting an order of nuns.Margarethe’s curiosity and precocity delight and perplex her teachers as they try to mold her. Her father trains her with his military cadets. A retired opera singer teaches her how to sing. Her grandaunt, headmistress of the convent school, educates her in philosophy and classics. At an early age, Margarethe heads to Oxford to follow in her father’s footsteps. Gifted with both musical and intellectual talents, she must choose between singing and service. Raised to take her duty and noblesse oblige seriously, she decides to study medicine and becomes one of the few female surgeons in 1920s Germany.Because she needs heirs to her titles, Margarethe reluctantly marries, but that doesn’t prevent her from finding solace in the arms of women. She trains under the best surgeons in Germany and England and rises to prominence as London’s infamous “Lady Doctor.” Finally, duty requires her to return to her homeland and take the reins of the family fortunes.The Imperative of Desire, the first volume in The Passing Rites Series, is a coming-of-age story that takes a young woman from La Belle Époque, through a world war, a revolution that outlawed the German nobility, the roaring twenties, to the decadent demimonde of Weimar Berlin.Book The Imperative of Desire (Passing Rites Book 1) Review :
When Elena Graf writes an historical romance, a reader invariably gets more of each than anyone has a right to expect!"The Imperative of Desire" is an epic addition to the Passing Rites series and the satisfying raison d’être for the books that came after, which were published first. Graf’s brilliant approach to her series, saving the first book in the series for last published, achieves a masterful stroke of authorial intervention.“The Imperative of Desire” is, as others have mentioned, the first book in the already existing Passing Rites Series. The series began with Book 2, the elaborate and extraordinary Occasions of Sin, which I have reviewed previously. “The Imperative of Desire” provides us with in-depth answers to questions we readers only fleetingly wondered about in Books 2, 3 and 4. These answers imbue this Book 1 and the entire series with a depth of insight and a tapestry of rich beginnings. We are so fully invested in the life of our protagonist, Margarethe von Stahle, that she seems real, not fictional. I honestly want to re-read the entire series.Although each book in the series can be read on its own, the beauty of this quartet is that every book is a life lived to the fullest, with all the attendant triumphs and tragedies that pull us into the matrix of who Margarethe von Stahle is. Others have adequately and accurately discussed the plotline of this book, to which I can only add that this protagonist is a single-minded force in a multi-dimensional woman, not typical of “her time,” and not typical in her interests, her love affairs, her passions—not even from Day One!Graf leads us effortlessly to the crux of the matter in the title of The Imperative of Desire. Margarethe is not only a woman with real-world responsibilities to her family history, and tradition, she is an inventive hero who approaches each challenge, personal or historical, with the singular, cool determination of a woman for whom desire is an imperative, a calling, a pastime, a duty and a part of her inherent makeup.In addition, this is where I would like to comment on the plotlines of the entire series. While each story is unique and different, Margarethe as the common denominator of the series is what gives it the cohesion of a great big page-turning series. Graf is among the best at weaving character throughout the backdrop of historical events, giving each book a blockbuster life of its own as part of a wider story."The Imperative of Desire" sets the stage for us, pulls us in like a super magnet and doesn’t let go of us until we’ve been flung to the far corners of a remarkably coherent psyche in a turbulent, complicated, divisive world. Margarethe von Stahl is one of the most memorable, classically appealing protagonists to come along in quite a while.Margarethe’s “desire” is more than romantic and physical passion, though there is plenty of that; her “desire” is more than a need for organization, orderly procedures or smooth resolution of crisis, though she excels at achieving that, too.More than anything, her “desire” is her sense of life, a way to view the world, a way to move through that world, the thing that sets her apart from other women.And yet…and yet, this “desire” is the very thing that brings most other women to a point of happy incredulity that they should find themselves so consumed with and attracted to Margarethe on so many levels.For this heroine, intimacy is another aspect of desire, and she considers her lovers her ultimate reward, even when she cannot save herself from the hungry, restive and compelling imperative that sometimes, more is more—and she wants more. Not everyone agrees--You’ll see!People in Margarethe’s world are compelled to love her, despite her several deficiencies, because everyone seems to know that if Margarethe loves you back, you will be extremely well loved and extremely befuddled at how she does it. Who doesn’t want to know how THAT happens!Margarethe is authentic, flawed, brilliant, impatient, generous, given to having her desires fulfilled, sometimes at great personal cost, and most of all, Margarethe is the action heroine her world needs and the world demands that she be.In Margarethe’s eyes, she has no other choice because there is no other choice. There are only imperatives born of the need to survive and thrive in a world gone mad before and during World War II. However, this entire series is no typical historical tome—no, this is a travelogue of the soul, an odyssey of the heart and a Baedeker of the mind. This first book, then, is the birth and early life of a rare spirit who becomes a full woman under circumstances that would bring most of us to our knees.Very Highly recommend The Imperative of Desire (Book 1), as well as Occasions of Sin (Book 2), Lies of Omission (Book 3) and Acts of Contrition, (Book 4). in the Passing Rites series. This book is amazingly detailed and well-written enough that I immediately bought the entire series after finishing the first book because I have to know what happens.Written in the first person, the reader is given an in-depth view into the world of Margarethe von Stahle, part of the Prussian aristocracy. She is born into nobility and titles that pass down through the female line, meaning that she will take over all of her family's holdings and accounts eventually, as well as responsibility for all those under her care, including an entire convent and village. She is instilled with a sense of duty and noblesse oblige early on that will strongly shape her life. But that doesn't stop Margarethe from living her best life and blazing new trails.**THE REST OF THE REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS**This book follows Margarethe through her first 30-odd years and the highs and lows of life as lesbian (which is a fairly open secret among those close to her), an heiress with a duty to produce a female heir of her own (even though the thought of pregnancy and motherhood leave her quite unaffected), and a passionately progressive and dedicated surgeon at the forefront of the medical profession for women in Germany and England. Margarethe is quite the formidable young prodigy, rising to fame in a period of grandeur and unrest before, during, and after World War I and the Great Depression. She steers steadfastly through being a woman in a "man's world" and many deep losses in her young life, always keeping her eye on the prize, always ultimately knowing where she needs/wants to be and getting herself there.Not only are we treated to a richly detailed view into the protagonist's life, this book does it all against the incredibly elaborate backdrop of Germany and England in the early 20th century, providing a glimpse back in time "from La Belle Époque, through a world war, a revolution that outlawed the German nobility, the roaring twenties, to the decadent demimonde of Weimar Berlin".Graf does a wonderful job of endearing Margarethe to the reader and putting you right there in the middle of the story, almost as if you ARE Margarethe. I had a hard time putting this book down and can't wait to see where Margarethe will take me in the next books! 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