Lissa's review
The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Sheri Holman
Lissa's review
The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Sheri Holman
Lissa's review
rating:
Gustine is a high class prostitute with a baby with an ectopic heart. Henry is a body snatching physician with an obsession with hearts. Thus an unlikely partnership springs up in the midst of a cholera epidemic. As time goes on, Henry descends into madness while Gustine breaks free of her prison. Over all, the author has made the good characters with some bad qualities, the bad characters with some good qualities and the result is that there is no one to root for except the cholera, which I hoped would get them all. The book is also told in a strange way, especially the beginning - it's somewhere between third person and first person. While some might think it clever, I thought it tired and gimmicky. That being said, there was some nice quotage, so I gave her an addition star for that.
