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Charlotte Markham And The House Of Darkling. Michael Boccacino (2012)

by Michael Boccacino(Favorite Author)

3.25 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1781164460 (ISBN13: 9781781164464)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Titan Publishing Company

review 1: The only reason I finished this book was to see if there was a plot after all, because I was never quite sure what it was while reading. After finishing, I'm still not sure what the 'game' they were playing was. Some of the scenes had such great potential, like the dinner with the vivid descriptions of the dishes served; this would have been an intriguing short story. But other than that, I had a hard time making sense of his descriptions of creatures, and it was impossible to feel any connection with the characters.
review 2: There is an interesting story buried in here, it's just too bad that all the problems with character, plot, and setting get in the way. It seemed to me that if the book had taken more of a fantasy direction, that could have made the whol... moree product fit together better. It would have also avoided the painfully non-authentic-seeming "Victorian" atmosphere of the book. I agree with some of the other readers that the characters' decisions were often unexpected and didn't seem to make sense - they seemed more like things that needed to happen to move the plot forward but that didn't seem true to the characters, who ended up jumbled and didn't come across as distinct and sympathetic individuals. I got within 20 pages of the ending and I found that I just didn't care anymore. There is something potentially compelling under all that, though, I could see it being a little like The High House / The False House under better circumstances. less

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