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Review title: Good idea, but Agiri doesn't deliver.
Product review: Agiri's story, which begins in West Virginia and migrates to New Haven--with occasional excursions to other places--starts from a good idea (the ultimate in Victorian restrictions: male-male relationships), but then doesn't go further. Agiri seems to have traded quality for quantity, and while her story is enjoyable and relaxing in a boring Sunday-afternoon kind of way, we never see her characters developed: they each have their own "history," but their development in the story (if any) is plainly linear. The story seems to move slowly and with no clear direction, but ironically it still remains highly predictable. This is not a novel which Forster, as one of the reviews on the book's jacket claims, would have written. Agiri's attempt was noble, and her details of a Victorian New England are well-based, but she fails to grab all the elements she's amassed and deliver a good product.
