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A review by pauline_b
Melmoth by Sarah Perry
4.0
This book is not what I thought it would be. And I mean that in a good way. I was getting ready for a spooky story, but this is so much more.
This was a real rollercoaster: textbook gothic novel atmosphere, beautiful, heartwrenching, hopeful. I just didn't know what to think of it until the end. It deals with guilt, punishment, atonement and hope and spans through different cultures, places and time, while all these stories are bound together by the enigmatic Melmoth figure.
It feels more matured and developed than Sarah Perry's previous book "The Essex Serpent" while still blending reality and myths. I really liked it.
The only small thing that did annoy me: I didn't get along with the structure of narrative within narrative in the first half of the book, because one subplot was a bit too long and pulled me out of the overarching plot.
This was a real rollercoaster: textbook gothic novel atmosphere, beautiful, heartwrenching, hopeful. I just didn't know what to think of it until the end. It deals with guilt, punishment, atonement and hope and spans through different cultures, places and time, while all these stories are bound together by the enigmatic Melmoth figure.
It feels more matured and developed than Sarah Perry's previous book "The Essex Serpent" while still blending reality and myths. I really liked it.
The only small thing that did annoy me: I didn't get along with the structure of narrative within narrative in the first half of the book, because one subplot was a bit too long and pulled me out of the overarching plot.