carolinewithane's Reviews (647)

this was nothing i expected and everything i needed. this book is definitely on my top 5 of 2017

also, if you have the chance - listen to the audiobook. the narrator is incredible. i couldn’t stop listening both because of the story and also because of how amazing the narration was.

This started with a bang and ended with a whimper, I’m afraid.

The beginning is great. The atmosphere, the characters, the terror—it all feels very genuine and enticing. But then the main villain short of vanishes and the stories drags on for... well, almost until the very end.

Don’t get me wrong: it was worth reading. I gave it three stars, after all, and that’s a good rating in my eyes. It just didn’t live up to what it promised. I think the epistolary format that worked so well in the beginning is at fault—it’s hard to build tension when the narrator already knows what happened.

I do understand why it is considered a classic, though. I’d’ve loved to have studied it in uni.