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A review by ruxandra_grr
Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson
2.0
This was a bit meh. Yeah, gothic, atmospheric, very richly [over]written but with such moralism and religiosity, with a guy falling in love with a woman because she seems so pure and pious, just this guy putting her on a pedestal (which isn't love, in my humble opinion) without even talking to her. So the atmosphere is great, but the rest of it just didn't jibe with me at all.
I'm not going to complain about there not being much vampiric content, I am quite okay with the subtlety of that, and using it as a metaphor for the class-based downfall: the family the woman belongs to used to be rich, now they're not and they've probably mingled with commoners, shucks, what a scandal!
I'm not going to complain about there not being much vampiric content, I am quite okay with the subtlety of that, and using it as a metaphor for the class-based downfall: the family the woman belongs to used to be rich, now they're not and they've probably mingled with commoners, shucks, what a scandal!