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Silent in the Grave
by Deanna Raybourn
An entertaining and well written read that speeds up drastically in the later chapters. I enjoyed the depictions of this distinctly different family in Victorian times and the eccentricities within them all. The March family make for very engaging reading and all of the siblings, with the exception of the more conservatively raised oldest brother, are a delight to spend time with.
It's lightly written, oft covering dark themes with a gentle hand as well as a wry sense of humour. The Victorian expectations and how the March family buck against them and just about get away with it is done well. There's the constantly slightly edged awareness that at some point they are going to go too far and it will all end badly.
The murder plot is slow and almost teasing to begin with but it speeds up in the latter half of the novel and twists and turns with red herrings galore. I wasn't quite as enamoured with it as when I first read it near a decade ago, but the writing style and characters still kept me engaged. I was more aware of how slowly it was moving because I knew where it was going I would suggest.
I am still debating whether the imagery on each chapter page deliberately resembles the feminine organs... judging from others views on the feminism with this series I would anticipate the answer is yes.
It's lightly written, oft covering dark themes with a gentle hand as well as a wry sense of humour. The Victorian expectations and how the March family buck against them and just about get away with it is done well. There's the constantly slightly edged awareness that at some point they are going to go too far and it will all end badly.
The murder plot is slow and almost teasing to begin with but it speeds up in the latter half of the novel and twists and turns with red herrings galore. I wasn't quite as enamoured with it as when I first read it near a decade ago, but the writing style and characters still kept me engaged. I was more aware of how slowly it was moving because I knew where it was going I would suggest.
I am still debating whether the imagery on each chapter page deliberately resembles the feminine organs... judging from others views on the feminism with this series I would anticipate the answer is yes.