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A review by svw89
Unspeakable by Dilys Rose
3.0
Unspeakable is about Thomas Aikenhead, the last person to be executed for blasphemy in Britain. I enjoy reading fictional accounts of real life people, especially ones that I'd never previously heard of, but I did struggle with large parts of this.
The use of strong Scottish dialect for every character made it very difficult to read at times. I'm the kind of person who likes when authors use dialect in their writing but this was too much. It was a distraction. It was difficult. It took away rather than enhanced. What made it doubly difficult was that there were no speech marks used. It's a shame because for the non-speech parts, the writing was strong and I really got a feel of the places, especially Edinburgh in parts one and three.
I thought that parts one and two were stronger than part three. Part three I felt was a little rushed. I would have preferred, and was expecting, a bit more in the lead up to Thomas' arrest, trial and execution.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing a free digital copy.
The use of strong Scottish dialect for every character made it very difficult to read at times. I'm the kind of person who likes when authors use dialect in their writing but this was too much. It was a distraction. It was difficult. It took away rather than enhanced. What made it doubly difficult was that there were no speech marks used. It's a shame because for the non-speech parts, the writing was strong and I really got a feel of the places, especially Edinburgh in parts one and three.
I thought that parts one and two were stronger than part three. Part three I felt was a little rushed. I would have preferred, and was expecting, a bit more in the lead up to Thomas' arrest, trial and execution.
Thank you to NetGalley for providing a free digital copy.