I don't remember Fall of the House of Usher as it's been about oh... 22 years since I last read it. I know that I enjoyed it, but I'd have to re-read it to really compare it to the original and know the parallels to the two.

It wasn't a huge twist, really--I figured out what was going on pretty early on. Which was fine, it didn't make me want to stop reading or anything. There was a lot of info dumping in the middle of scenes which took me out of the action. Especially when it's in the middle of a conversation and then tries to throw you back into it like nothing ever happened.

The sworn soldier thing is still confusing to me and I suppose if I read this in print and could go back and re-read sentences over and over I might get it, but I was reading audiobook so I didn't have the luxury (or the interest, if I'm honest).

It also didn't feel all that horresque to me, but it could've been the narrator; it felt pretty blasé for the most part. I've had other horror books via narration that chilled me before and this one just didn't quite hit that mark.