A review by emilysquest
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

This book is GREAT FUN and highly recommended for folks who like: female queerness & interqueer politics, female-dominated casts of characters, ghost stories & gothic fiction, horror tropes, Edward Gorey style grotesqueries, triads over dyads, fin de siècle girls' boarding school fiction, LA noir(ish), creepy-New-England-in-the-fall, and interlinked past-and-present narratives that parallel and reveal one another.

Edit: Also a little surprised by all the reviews citing a slow pace—this book zipped along for me; I couldn't put it down. And I loved the discursive (but not really discursive) narrator and the characters' messy inner workings. But these things are, of course, subjective.
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