A pretty harmless read, but not terribly interesting. Lots of melodrama, lots of stereotypes, and lots of very obvious foreshadowing. To give it some credit, it is the first gothic novel, so if you're interested in the history of the genre I would recommend Otranto. It's roughly 80-90 pages and can easily be found online for free. Aside from that though, i don't have any reason to revisit this book again.