A review by debwick_7
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

1.0

After struggling for more than half of this flabby and poorly edited brick of a thing, I realised I no longer had any desire to find out more about Lilliet Berne. A preposterous story with immensely self obsessed and irritating characters, difficult not to roll your eyes at the households full of polymaths who can put on an opera or play at the drop of a hat. With the amount of real life talents Chee has dropped in I'm surprised he didn't shoehorn Worth in to run up a couple of cheeky costumes for these impromptu happenings.
Complete self indulgence, and the lack of quotation marks was pretentious and often extremely confusing.