A review by abetterjulie
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood

3.0

Without the Prelude, I wouldn't have finished this novel, which would have been a shame because the end was the best part. I think this is an homage to the Agatha Christie tone and mood. The characters are vague and the setting is the most prominent of all of the characters. The love is ardent, but infuriatingly rational. The main character is passionately passionless. Everything is urgently bland, but it works. There were some lovely phrases, and it was the most melancholy Spring I've read in awhile, almost Gorey-ish in my imagination. I hated Eden, and that shows that the author chose to make the other characters less evocative. It wasn't the book I would have written, but it was the book I read and kept reading to the satisfying end.