Title: Trite and predictable
Product review: This reads like the work of an amateur novelist who has spent too much time reading Jane Austen and is obviously in love with her own heroine. The pseudo-Victorian writing style and the main character's supposed wit, charm and progressive thinking are very stilted and unbelievable; all of the supporting characters are uninteresting, one-dimensional stock figures; and the "mystery" itself is implausible and laughably developed. One thing I did enjoy was the inclusion of 19th-century museums and academia, although it was somewhat awkwardly played out, so one extra star for that. On the whole, the entire book is so cliched and formulaic that I actually found myself enjoying how bad it was. This is a good book to read if you're looking for something silly - not in content but in execution.
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