Welcome to Litsy!

This is a dark gothic read, a genre which I love. Usually the audience empathises with the MC & wants to see them succeed, but here the MC, Marta, is easy to dislike. She's manipulative, cunning, physically abusive to Grace, mercenary, & what we would now term fatphobic with how she describes others. She thinks herself above everyone else, so what kept me reading above it being an engrossing tale, was hoping to see she gets her comeuppance. (Cont)