A review by jodiesbookishposts
The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

3.0

I really really didn’t get on with Poe’s writing style. It was just so over written. I felt like all the tension and pace was drained out with overly purple prose. There was only one or two stories in the collection I actually got on with and would say we’re five star. Some were okay and some were just mind numbing.

I must say I had higher expectations. But, we can’t all love everything and maybe Poe just isn’t one for me.

I think I might have been better off cherry picking stories to read over a longer period of time than trying to read them all in the month. This might have made them easier to digest.