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A review by sarahcoller
Man of Shadow and Mist by Michelle Griep
4.0
This story got sillier the further in I got, but I still enjoyed it. It's rare that I enjoy an "inspirational" fiction since so many are so contrived and preachy --- but this one wasn't that way. I've read her other story based on a book --- Lost in Darkness --- and knew this one would be just as well-written.
This one was fun with several nods to other stories: Pride and Prejudice shows up with the self-centered mother and a daughter closer to her father; Jane Eyre with the secret attic woman; Beauty and the Beast/Rigoletto with the, “kill the beast!” mentality.
I have just two complaints? questions? about the story. One---why does this author insist on really weird cuss words that I've never read anywhere in any actual Victorian literature? Her other story used the same: "Blast!" "Rot!" "Botheration??!!" A grown man cursing with, “Pooh”? WHY??????? Am I reading Dr Seuss or Roald Dahl? Maybe we’re cowboys…(“what in tarrrrnation?!”)
Secondly: why did she reference the CASTLE of Udolpho when the book is actually called The Mysteries of Udolpho?
Other than that, I'd say there may be hope for the inspirational fiction market after all...
This one was fun with several nods to other stories: Pride and Prejudice shows up with the self-centered mother and a daughter closer to her father; Jane Eyre with the secret attic woman; Beauty and the Beast/Rigoletto with the, “kill the beast!” mentality.
I have just two complaints? questions? about the story. One---why does this author insist on really weird cuss words that I've never read anywhere in any actual Victorian literature? Her other story used the same: "Blast!" "Rot!" "Botheration??!!" A grown man cursing with, “Pooh”? WHY??????? Am I reading Dr Seuss or Roald Dahl? Maybe we’re cowboys…(“what in tarrrrnation?!”)
Secondly: why did she reference the CASTLE of Udolpho when the book is actually called The Mysteries of Udolpho?
Other than that, I'd say there may be hope for the inspirational fiction market after all...