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The Skull And The Nightingale (2013)

by Michael Irwin(Favorite Author)

2.79 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0062202359 (ISBN13: 9780062202352)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: This book is a victim of its marketing. It's packaged as a Victorian-era erotic thriller, but it's not a thriller by any means (though there is one death) and it's not particularly erotic, though there is one graphic sex scene and one of the plotlines involves the narrator trying to arrange to have an affair with a married woman. It's about a young man whose guardian pays him to go to London to live the high life and report back to the guardian so he can live vicariously through the young man. Some nice period detail is about all this has going for it. It's readable, and it kept me involved enough to finish it, but it all amounts to not much in the end.
review 2: I just finished this beautiful read. This is my favorite book, ever, at this moment. Ignore all the... more bad reviews. If you like 18th century style prose, handsome satyrs, the English countryside, England in the 18th century, masquerade balls, true 18th century dialogue between English country gentlemen in pubs, songs by said gentlemen, odd characters from 18th century London, blushing vixens, and peeks into the boudoirs of these people, then by all means read this delicious book. less

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