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This 19th-century Gothic novel starts brilliantly and builds up a dark, suspenseful atmosphere in the opening chapters. But somehow I feel it all fizzles out, with too much repetitive dialogue and everything happening too slowly, until near the end there are suddenly loads of plot twists in the space of two or three pages to tie up all the loose ends.
I was keen to read this after seeing a BBC adaptation a few years ago which I remember enjoying, and also because I knew it had some echoes of 'Ja ...more
I was keen to read this after seeing a BBC adaptation a few years ago which I remember enjoying, and also because I knew it had some echoes of 'Ja ...more
