A review by hoserlauren
Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin

2.0

The only saving grace of this book was that it was short. It's a pretty boring re-telling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the servant's point of view, but it brings absolutely nothing new to the story. There's no interesting vantage of an otherwise well known story or really anything to save this boring book. The amount of times that Mary gets a fire ready in a room is ridiculous.

I haven't read the original, but I'd also like to know why people don't recognize that Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll? How does the same person look so different that no one can recognize him?