A review by aquamarinecadet
Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

dark funny mysterious fast-paced

4.0

dude ik you've been saying her dad's crazy and she's literally poison but i love her :( 

ok jokes aside, this novella was a banger. imagine getting roasted like this:

Thou! Dost thou pray? [...] Thy very prayers, as they come from thy lips, taint the atmosphere with death.

and to that one other review that said the story would've been cooler in modern english, i must disagree. 
LOOK AT THIS:

By all appreciable signs, they loved; they had looked love [...] they had even spoken love [...] and yet there had been no seal of lips, no clasp of hands, nor any slightest caress, such as love claims and hallows.

or maybe i just like archaisms