A review by megales
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe

3.0

I read this for a graduate class for YA: Mystery and Horror. I've heard of Radcliffe before and how she was very popular with her gothic style. I can see why readers would have flocked to her novels in the 18th century- a lot of drama goes on! I would call a lot of it cliché but this was an emerging style at the time it was written. It does still remind me of a soap opera- the use of exclamation points, the sudden discovery of someone's sibling or love where you least expect, but is very coincidental! That said I enjoyed this book for that reason, it made me laugh but also I wanted to know what was going to happen next- kidnapping, hiding, shipwrecks, long lost relatives, secret caverns under castles. Like it's crazy, with a lot of female fainting everywhere, but entertaining.