A review by rlaurene
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England by Emily Brand

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

This book explores the star-crossed Byron family, several generations before the infamous Lord Byron. There are a host of eccentric and wild characters who really do their hardest to live up to Byron's insistence that just what made him mad and bad was in his blood. The format, told through the viewpoint of the family seat of Newstead Abbey is interesting, and many of the people explored sincerely do deserve the time the book devotes to them (Isabella, John, William and Jack come to mind). 

My main issue is that this is a huge family (unsurprising when John impregnates his wife every time he's home for more than five minutes) and it is difficult to keep track of them all. With the audiobook at least, there is no way to remind yourself who is who.