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A review by doritobabe
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
5.0
4.5
Solid novel. I'd been wanting to read this for years. It took me awhile as it is a very long slow burn of a novel; a ton of layers went into building this story.
In retrospect, I find it interesting that the struggle of being LGBTQA+ wasn't revealed or the driver of this story. Instead, the focus was placed on despicable people conducting despicable acts to one another. This was the better decision, in my mind. Are the character's decisions and their acts based in class struggle and subsequent warfare, or is Waters speaking to the underlying "evil"/maliciousness that can exist in us all? Is this what makes us human instead of our good intentions? Hmm..
Solid novel. I'd been wanting to read this for years. It took me awhile as it is a very long slow burn of a novel; a ton of layers went into building this story.
In retrospect, I find it interesting that the struggle of being LGBTQA+ wasn't revealed or the driver of this story. Instead, the focus was placed on despicable people conducting despicable acts to one another. This was the better decision, in my mind. Are the character's decisions and their acts based in class struggle and subsequent warfare, or is Waters speaking to the underlying "evil"/maliciousness that can exist in us all? Is this what makes us human instead of our good intentions? Hmm..