by James Reese
Like Rice's Interview with the Vampire, this is sensual and sexual and interweaves a subject of the horror genre--in this case witches--with well-crafted historical fiction. Set in the France of around 1830, this is mostly the first person narrative of Herculine--the very name was a hint of her natu...
Mixed feeling about this one... it had potential to be several good things. In the end, however, I feel that it pretty much missed the mark on all of them.In the "positive" column: Blasphemy! Witches! A priest-incubus! A bloody revenant! A hermaphrodite schoolgirl!In the "negative" column... a slow-...
With a story dwelling on minutiae, and cardboard characters, seemed like the author worked too hard to pull in the gory, the gothic, and the erotic. Didn't work for me. Life's too short to read bad books, so this went on the 'discard' pile.
With a story dwelling on minutiae, and cardboard characters, seemed like the author worked too hard to pull in the gory, the gothic, and the erotic. Didn't work for me. Life's too short to read bad books, so this went on the 'discard' pile.
Enjoyable, but not wholly satisfying. Left too many unanswered questions and plot holes that needed to be flushed out more. And the ending? Hello Titanic...NO. I know this is supposed to be fantastical, but come on...let's add a little reality, huh?
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