A review by mgmat
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Did not finish book. Stopped at 22%.

I was in the mood for something lush and gothic, and the first 75 pages gave me that (even though Vida and her house were far more interesting than Margaret, who had the personality of dry toast) and then... we did a story-within-a-story. I put the book down, and, then, days later, found myself entirely uninterested in picking it up again. Without context or connection, reading blocks of about strange, new people, especially in flashback form, wasn't intriguing in the slightest.