Well, that was without doubt the hardest-earned point for the Festive Tasks I've ever completed. To be fair, the fact that I did get Percy's story in the end and that it did turn out in a way I had hoped, well, that made up for quite bit of the stupid purple prose, circular narration, bad plotting...
I kind of laugh at this book being marketed as Gothic. It's really not. I mean there's an old castle, but the book itself is so far from Gothic it's not even funny. This is a slow moving book that doesn't pick up any speed. When the book comes to the reveal at that point I just shrugged about it. Th...
I read the whole thing, so it is certainly not a 2 star book. But, it did feel very drawn out and teasing, hiding important facts in order to reveal them as plot twists, and telegraphing other "secrets" but not revealing them outright for whatever reason. Unlike other novels where history intersects...
I read the whole thing, so it is certainly not a 2 star book. But, it did feel very drawn out and teasing, hiding important facts in order to reveal them as plot twists, and telegraphing other "secrets" but not revealing them outright for whatever reason. Unlike other novels where history intersects...
At the beginning I thought this was only going to be two or three stars. The passages about the three sisters life in the 90s were a bit overdone. However, once I got past this I found the story completely engaging. It is like the gothic twin sister to The Forgotten Garden; a tragic story about the ...
My friend passed this across the table and promised a trio of spinsters, a creaky castle and long hidden family secrets. I probably should not have taken the book, seeing as it’s roughly a million pages long and I read at a slugs pace, but I was sold anyway because I’m nosey and books with dark sec...
Second of Kate Morton's books I have read (The Shifting Fog/The House at Riverton was the first). Great mystery that kept me guessing to the end. I loved the thought of the old castle with all the family secrets and ghosts. I like the way Morton writes, going back and forth in time, slowly revealing...
Second of Kate Morton's books I have read (The Shifting Fog/The House at Riverton was the first). Great mystery that kept me guessing to the end. I loved the thought of the old castle with all the family secrets and ghosts. I like the way Morton writes, going back and forth in time, slowly revealing...
I think I deserve a prize for reading this behemoth of a book. Oh wait, the prize is moving on to another book that couldn't possibly be as unpleasant to read as The Distant Hours. The idea for the book sounded fantastic- an old almost forgotten castle, some spinsters, a letter previously lost in ...
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