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I struggled with this book when reading it as ghost stories are not really my thing and I found it quite pedestrian. BUt I loved Waters description of the hosue which in many ways is the main character of the book. However, I have to say that the book grew on me immensely after I had finished it - it haunted me! - and so I have come to think of it as much better than I did when I was reading it :)
I just love Sarah Waters' novels. Like all of hers, this one was absorbing and suspenseful, with an interesting plot and characters, and leaving you not sure where it's going to end up. Definitely entertaining and up to Sarah Waters' usual standards.
Compared to Affinity, Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, this one is my least favorite, though. This one is narrated in the first person from a male point of view, and I never really felt that I got to know the narrator or to like him very much. And ...more
Compared to Affinity, Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, this one is my least favorite, though. This one is narrated in the first person from a male point of view, and I never really felt that I got to know the narrator or to like him very much. And ...more
Somewhere a few years ago this book was recommmended as a good Halloween read; being described as a spooky page turner. I didn't find most of it very spooky as it seemed more of a psychological mystery more than a ghost story. Sure the possibility still remains that the explanations behind what happened in the house and to the members of the Ayres family could have some supernatural cause, but the same arguement could be given that it was a family madness that led to the events of the novel. The
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