2.5 stars.
The good: I liked the cover design. The writing style was unusual and well-crafted, this book was lyrical and poetic which made it more enjoyable than it would have been if it was straight prose. It had a sense of unease and some haunting/gothic themes. The ending reminded me somewhat of the end of The great gatsby which of course is a classic.
Not so good: very little happens in this story. This may work for some and might have worked for me had there been more character development or simply if I felt I connected more with the characters. I just couldn't engage with them which made it hard to care about anything that happened to them. I felt there was potential here to go deeper with the gothic themes and character development but for me there wasn't enough of this.
This book has received some excellent reviews so perhaps it just didn't quite work for me.
The good: I liked the cover design. The writing style was unusual and well-crafted, this book was lyrical and poetic which made it more enjoyable than it would have been if it was straight prose. It had a sense of unease and some haunting/gothic themes. The ending reminded me somewhat of the end of The great gatsby which of course is a classic.
Not so good: very little happens in this story. This may work for some and might have worked for me had there been more character development or simply if I felt I connected more with the characters. I just couldn't engage with them which made it hard to care about anything that happened to them. I felt there was potential here to go deeper with the gothic themes and character development but for me there wasn't enough of this.
This book has received some excellent reviews so perhaps it just didn't quite work for me.