A review by rottenjester
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin

Did not finish book. Stopped at 54%.

Took around 50 pages to get into it, then I was really into it for around 30 pages, and then some character I did not care about started the story-within-the-story which I thought would last around 10-20 pages... 150 pages later I gave up and put the book down. There were some interesting takes on the hypocrisy of the Church and monk-ism (?) but the novel established a Gothic and demonic tale of temptation at the beginning and derailed into an extensive and repetitive narrative which went everywhere and nowhere. Wanted to like it, did briefly, didn't work out, moving on.