caitsidhe 's review for:

Mrs England by Stacey Halls

2.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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shouldn't have been sold as a gothic. It needs more than a sad lady in a fancy house and

an abusive husband

for a book to be a gothic.

The prose was good, the plot predictable and slight. I liked this writer's book The Familiars a lot, so I have to hope this was just a bit of a dud.