A review by funaek
The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski

3.0

This was a creepy intriguing read, but I felt like it was a bit heavy-handed at times (especially with Melanie's inner dialogue comparing herself to Milly). While this reminded me of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (love so many of her short stories), I preferred that to the Victorian Chaise Longue. In The Yellow Wallpaper we feel and witness the stifling and suffocating environment, whereas in The Victorian Chaise Longue Melanie was telling us about it. Maybe the problem was I didn't like being in Melanie's head so much. But, I still thoroughly enjoyed the story and breezed through it. I'll be trying some of Laski's other works soon.