A review by alisonhori
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

2.0

I was really looking forward to this book from the description I had read (which turns out to have been so brief as to be totally useless because I had no idea what this book was really going to be about). I was interested all of the pieces that were established to set this story up...post War England, Lesbian life styles at that time, the blurring of class lines...I thought all of it was very promising although dragged a little...but once we got to the meat of the story about half way through, it all feel apart for me. Totally cliqued and familiar..and worse, boring characters all with rather dull personalities and morals....to go through such torment to be involved with any of these people seems ridiculous. By the last quarter (the heart of the drama of the book)...I pretty much just wanted the whole thing to end already..and it pretty much could have there since really there is not much resolution by the end anyhow. This book had some neat parts to it but overall, it missed for me.