3.29 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jnicweb's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 40%

loved the spooky and gothic vibes but i hate augustine. i understand having him
lie to jane and be a bad man, but then don't act like he's supposed to be a good person! i'm getting mixed vibes, like is he evil or is he nice?? you can't have it both ways
challenging dark mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A good enough book. Unfortunately the plot lost me about half way through, and I felt it could’ve been cut down a bit. 

Started good.  Then ass. 
adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

fictionaladventures's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 3%

could just immediately tell the historical setting wasn’t for me


this had really strong gothic elements, which I enjoyed. sadly I physically could not make myself understand the third act - I have so many questions.

Absolutely loved this one. I wish I'd realized the author also wrote The Luminous Dead, I'd have been even more prepared to like it. Really good, fun, Gothic horror.

I was slightly dissapointed in this book. It was a good gothic novel, but I was hoping for more of a ghost story.

Additionally parts of this just seemed to move so slow and were not as engaging as I would hope.