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dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
A strange gothic book. I didn’t realise when I picked it up that it was the second book in a series, so that may be why I didn’t enjoy it that much.
The main character was odious but not very compelling, he was just annoying and pretentious.
The writer tries to experiment with language by ‘verbing’ nouns, but it’s done indelicately and was just annoying.
The story is slow and relies a lot of cliches, think mad woman in the attic, duplicitous asylum nurses and lots of pathetic fallacy.
Not amazing
The main character was odious but not very compelling, he was just annoying and pretentious.
The writer tries to experiment with language by ‘verbing’ nouns, but it’s done indelicately and was just annoying.
The story is slow and relies a lot of cliches, think mad woman in the attic, duplicitous asylum nurses and lots of pathetic fallacy.
Not amazing
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Forced institutionalization