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I am historically terrible at giving up on a book, but I am trying to call it earlier when a book is going nowhere. This book… Was going nowhere I cared about.

I originally bought it on an impulse because I thought that Jacqui would like it. However I decided that as someone who simulates a competent parent I should try to read it. Sadly, if you don’t know who a whole bunch of Victorian villains are (as Jacqui does not) this book makes zero sense — it largely hangs it’s character development off things like declaring that this character is the daughter of Doctor Monroe, and you’re just expected to know what that means. The characters are also largely flat and unlikable.

It’s off to the charity box for this one.