Protagonists:

[ ] Hot garbage

[x] Boring boring boring

[ ] Serviceable

[ ] Likeable leads

[ ] I love them so much

Side Character

[x] Every character is terrible

[ ] Characters commit sin of being boring/generic

[ ] Enough interesting characters to balance out the few terrible ones

[ ] Likeable side characters

[ ] Amazing characters all around

Antagonist(s)

[ ] Hate them for the wrong reasons

[ ] Cliché as hell

[ ] Serviceable

[ ] Sympathetic or likeable enough that I don't want to hate them

[x] Love to hate them

Plot

[ ] Average, generic plot

[ ] Average plot made interesting with creativity

[ ] Crazy plot that is either so bad it’s good or just plain bad

[x] Unique plot that keeps you interested

Writing

[ ] Terribly written

[ ] Very simple but effective language

[ ] Average writing that does the job

[ ] Beautiful but accessible writing

[x] Challenging

Short Thoughts: This book was made in the 1700s and it was hard to read due to the lack of punctuation. No quotation marks. Dashes used to separate some of the conversations. Hard to tell who is saying what. It doesn’t help that some characters just don’t get to the point of whatever they are explaining. I get that this is the comedy aspect of the book (look at the scared maid droning on about irrelevant things!) but it doesn’t work at all. This is supposed to be the first Gothic novel ever but reading it with modern eyes just left me unimpressed. The ending was just so frustrating. It was dramatic and wtf-ish yet so unfulfilling. It would be cool to see a reimagining of this (if it doesn’t exist already).