Title: Disappointing
Product review: There is more to 19th Century Britain than the use of carriages and lack of electricity. The author tosses away cultural mores with nary a second thought, and that was ultimately too distracting for me. The writing strove to be profound and the effort put into it was noticeable throughout, where a well crafted novel simply flows. All this could have been forgiven had I found the protagonists more likeable, but to me, they were pathetically driven by their lust with nothing of substance in their characters to make them appealing figures. I couldn't see why they should be drawn to one another or us to them. It ultimately resulted in a lot of sex scenes that chronicled impressive gymnastics which this reader, at least, viewed with detachment. I reread the other reviews to see if I had misremembered them at the time that I ordered the book. Obviously, I saw things very differently.
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