ronpayne 's review for:

The Beetle by Richard Marsh

2.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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So this is the book that out-sold Bran Stoker's Dracula six times over in their shared year of publication? It is not good. It was kind of fun to read as a curio, however. Even though the whole thing is a big pile of classism and orientalist racism held together by a string of coincidences, told in peculiar prose, and ending in one of the most bland anticlimaxes I've ever read.