Booklist - Kaite Mediatore A wholly original work told in the vein of all the best gothic classics. Lovers of books about book lovers will be enthralled.
Library Journal - Jenne Bergstrom [It's] a gothic novel, and it doesn't pretend to be anything fancier. But this one grabs the reader with its damp, icy fingers and doesn't let go until the last shocking secret has been revealed.
Kirkus Reviews A contemporary Gothic tale whose excesses and occasional implausibility can be forgiven for the thrill of the storytelling. Setterfield's debut is enchanting Goth for the 21st century.
Publishers Weekly like Jane [Eyre, Setterfield's heroine is] a real reader and makes a terrific narrator. That's where the comparisons end, but Setterfield, who lives in Yorkshire, offers graceful storytelling that has its own pleasures.
The Washington Post - Margaux Wexberg Sanchez "The Thirteenth Tale" keeps us reading for its nimble cadences and atmospheric locales, as well as for its puzzles, the pieces of which, for the most part, fall into place just as we discover where the holes are. And yet, for all its successes -- and perhaps because of them -- on the whole the book feels unadventurous, content to rehash literary formulas rather than reimagine them.
Now, I love ghost stories. This MAY overpower any of the aforementioned "negatives." Does anyone else want to read this book? Should we keep looking? I know that many people are coming up on finals week and may not have time to read. I was thinking that this weekend could be the unofficial start of a new book; the official start being graduation.
My second first choice(heh) would be Love in a Time of Cholera. Let me know who's on board and your choice of book!
i would be willing to give the book a chance. after rambling throuhg the plot free story of the last book it might be a very interesting change.
ReplyDeletep.s. i am slower then the rest. i just finished the last book, but i didn't know if i was going to get thru it.
Not something I would usually go for, but why not, maybe that should be reason in itself.
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