A review by bigbookslilreads
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

1.0

This was my first Daphne du Maurier, and probably not the best one to start with. I'm disappointed, and after some consideration, I found that a 1* (I did not like it) was the most fitting rating to describe my reading experience with The House on the Strand. The premise seemed very interesting to me: a Professor and his friend start experimenting with a potent hallucinogen and seem to travel to medieval times. However, I did not like the execution, and the story did not engage me at all. Maybe someone reading this physically would fare better. I could pay no attention to the past time because it was just so dull and did not seem to have any real impact on the story. Even the protagonist did not do much in his trip to the past. If he did I was too bored to notice.
I started to get mildly invested at the halfway point, when the story started to focus on the instability of the protagonist after becoming somewhat dependent on the drug. But even that was mildly interesting at best.
Not worth it.