Review: Awesome!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
This is a dark Gothic thriller, set in Victorian times. It's beautifully written...grim and intense and nothing is as it appears! It peaked my interest from the first line. The author perfectly portrays the squalor and horror facing the main character Lisbeth, as she escapes Blackened Cottage, her evil father and his cloying friend, Jean-Bernard, to go in search of her little brother Eddie, who has been sent away to school in London.The two men pursue her and adding to the horror of her situation, a psychotic killer, Mortimer joins the chase. However, his plan for poor Lisbeth is far worse than her father's desire to pair her off with Jean-Bernard.I had a theory as to where the story was heading...I was right. But the twists, turns and shocks along the way, kept me reading late into the tonight. It was hard to be firm with myself and put the book down.I found the ending, with regard to Mortimer a little unsettling. To my mind, loose ends left undone? But at the risk of a spoiler, I can't say much.This is a great book, especially for fans of Gothic thrillers.