Essex Serpent

A Novel

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Sarah Perry: Essex Serpent (2017, HarperCollins Publishers)

432 pages

Langue : English

Publié 29 octobre 2017 par HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN :
978-0-06-269627-4
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Review of 'The Essex Serpent' on 'Goodreads'

Apologies to the author but this one isn't for me. Incredibly dull, huge number of pages with epic descriptions with nothing happening. Unlikeable characters also don't help, a book needs somebody for you to cheer on. The setting of this book should have been stunning in it's bleakness but I felt nothing for it, even a sheep stuck in the mud provoked no emotions. It probably doesn't help that I kept wanting to compare to Wuthering Heights, so it was already off to a losing start as not many books can stand up to the quality of Wuthering Heights.

There is a TV series for this, I might watch it to see if that helps me to understand the appeal for this book.

Sujets

  • Fiction, historical
  • Fiction, gothic