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shona_reads_in_devon 's review for:
Things in Jars
by Jess Kidd
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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Things in Jars is a truly grotesque offering and I really enjoyed it.
Bridie Devine, Irish street rat turned private investigator, specialises in the peculiar and unusual. Fresh from the disappointment of a recent professional failure, she is called to her strangest case yet. On the face of it, a straightforward child abduction. But things are not what they seem and Bridie's past is coming back to haunt her.
This was a lot of weird and gross fun. Full of strange Victorian curios and peppered with a varied cast of characters straight out of the circus.
The pace dallied for me in places but the tone of the era - the characters, the settings, the oddities - all lent really well to this macabre and unsettling little story.
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Things in Jars is a truly grotesque offering and I really enjoyed it.
Bridie Devine, Irish street rat turned private investigator, specialises in the peculiar and unusual. Fresh from the disappointment of a recent professional failure, she is called to her strangest case yet. On the face of it, a straightforward child abduction. But things are not what they seem and Bridie's past is coming back to haunt her.
This was a lot of weird and gross fun. Full of strange Victorian curios and peppered with a varied cast of characters straight out of the circus.
The pace dallied for me in places but the tone of the era - the characters, the settings, the oddities - all lent really well to this macabre and unsettling little story.