This was not my favorite. Extremely slow paced. Lots of talk about whorehouses. Silas- the very inept taxidermist who is once introduced to Iris and starts stalking her... Thinking she will love him after that brief encounter. He really annoyed me.
Started out Victorian-era feeling but quickly turned into feeling like a modern thriller at the end.
I also felt that a book called The Doll Factory should have been more focused around that and it fell way short of that mark for me.