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This is going to be my five stars because I can see where some of the criticisms -- that it's really two books, and gets bogged down in a murder trial might, in a nearly 600 page book, be a turn off for some.
The thing is, I haven't been this absorbed in a novel in a long time, and so goddamned much of it is scrubbing floors. ...more
The thing is, I haven't been this absorbed in a novel in a long time, and so goddamned much of it is scrubbing floors. ...more
Yet again Sarah Waters delivers an utterly magnificent, totally gripping and wonderfully well written novel, filled with characters so skilfully crafted that even after reading I can still feel them with me.
The Paying Guests has all the passion, albeit in a different form, of Tipping the Velvet, but under wraps of a different, far more suspenseful mood. The love she has crafted into the novel seeps through the pores of every page, and you find yourself desperately feeling for the characters and ...more
The Paying Guests has all the passion, albeit in a different form, of Tipping the Velvet, but under wraps of a different, far more suspenseful mood. The love she has crafted into the novel seeps through the pores of every page, and you find yourself desperately feeling for the characters and ...more
Loved this. I'd rank it up there with my other Waters favorites, Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet.
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Aug 22, 2014
Shellie (Layers of Thought)
marked it as to-read
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Lindsay
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Kit Goode
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Ben
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Dec 10, 2016
Kimberly
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Jul 15, 2017
A
marked it as tbr-adult-fic
Jun 19, 2019
Maggie
marked it as to-read
