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This prequel to Great Expectations starts very well, with an imagined childhood and young womanhood for Miss "Catherine" Havisham. However, I was increasingly disappointed as I read on, feeling the book becomes much weaker as it starts retelling and reinterpreting incidents from Dickens's novel.
The central problem for me is that Miss Havisham is such a passionate, Gothic figure, yet here she dwindles into a more insipid and realistic character. This is not a problem in the early sections, and I ...more
The central problem for me is that Miss Havisham is such a passionate, Gothic figure, yet here she dwindles into a more insipid and realistic character. This is not a problem in the early sections, and I ...more
Oct 30, 2013
O'Rissa
marked it as to-read
Jun 13, 2015
Anika
marked it as to-read
