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The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl

I can't even give this book 1 star, boy how I loathed it.
The writing was clunky particularly when dialogue was involved.
It felt more a homage to Poe with crassly shoehorned passages of Poe's work rammed in with very little thought taken to how this would effect the pace of the narrative.

In a word AWFUL.