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Wandered thru the snow and ice to make some literary stops and bookstore visits during my short visit to Boston. Hiya, EAP!

3✨ Starting this book by the description I was intrigued. I liked that there were ghosts inhabiting this castle and a mother and daughter duo inherited the castle. There was a couple of the ghost characters I really liked that reminded me of Hodor from GOT and a kind girl who cared about him. It did jump around in time so it could unfold what happened to the ghost which is always a challenge for me, and it started and ended with the same scene.

While fleeing Paris, conman La Motte is forced to take under his wing Adeline, on the run from her father, who is trying to force her into becoming a nun.

Although the effects of scenery on people's moods are important all through the book, the author really goes overboard with the travelogue sections of vol. 3, apparently based on travel books of the time. This striving for geographical realism is odd given how unrealistic the people are.

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While I‘m audio cleaning I gave Gary a tomato 🍅 🐌 One of my students wanted a snail from another science teacher and got tired of him after a couple hours. Their loss may gain! 🤩

I love a good gothic story. LOVE. But this is an endless and repetitive internal monologue. It's just the heroine saying the same damn thing over and over and over. To herself. Which means that not only is it boring, but the plot does not advance much. Pan.

This book was meant to find me - it literally landed in my hands while I was filling in at branch I don‘t usually work at. It demanded that I read it immediately & it absolutely held me in a chokehold until I finished it.

It‘s not perfect, it doesn‘t end with a neatly tied bow. It manages to be deeply weird & uncomfortable but the fever dream, gothic fairytale elements were absolutely for me (but not for everyone as the reviews are super mixed)

I really wanted to like this, as the premise sounded awesome. But for me, it didn‘t live up to the premise. I struggled to become engaged in the story and to connect with any of the characters. Maybe my expectations were too high because of all the hype, but this one wasn‘t for me.

Parts of this were good and others were sort of like a fever dream. Got some of the gothic elements and liked having a biracial heroine. Overall, the concept worked better than the execution for me, though I will say that sometimes when things are supposed to questionablew it‘s can be difficult to describe. Ending was so-so. Didn‘t hate it but from the description had hoped to like it more.