A review by corvinaq
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid

2.0

:( I did not like this at all. It was the complete opposite of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful Emma. I didn't even finish it. The tone is all wonky and wrong, and I was 40 pages in and still didn't care about or like any of the characters. The modernisation aspect is very clunky here--way too many detailed descriptions of her FB activity. She posts dress pictures to her sisters. She looks up the guy she just met. She looks up the sister of the guy she just met. She looks up the father of the guy she just met. It's all very realistic but it's awkwardly shoehorned into the rest of the story.