Lindsey T. reviewed on 12/29/2008 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This book had a lot of potential for me to love it, or at least really enjoy it. It's a historical novel, one of my favorite genres. It has a unique topic: while most novels written about the period would romanticize the upper class, this one focuses on the plight of the poor, which I appreciated, and it also brings in disease (cholera) and the conflicts between the classes, so there's a bit of education there, too. However, the narrator(s?) drove me nuts. They were annoying and didn't add anything of value to the story. They brought the book from a possible 4.5 for me to 2.5 stars.

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