Title: Pretentious- grisly - depressing- morbid
Review: I bought this book based on the strength of the advert in the book club and was looking forward to reading it. What a surprise when I got it! And what a dissapointment. The pretentious narrator destroyed any sympathy I could have had for the characters of this grim, grisly and depressing depiction of this period in English history. I found the constant 'dear reader' cloying and distanting. If Ms. Holman thought she would become the modern equivalent of Dickens with this book, she couldn't be more wrong. Her loving detail with the death scenes is morbid in the extreme. Dickens wrote a lot of grim detail too, but his characters were filled with hope and love and the promise of redemption. These characters are not!I can't remember what author said it, but this is not a book to be tossed aside gently, it should be thrown with great force against the wall. I'm just sorry I can't give it no stars.
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