“The Gothic story begins well with a midnight ceremony in the local church, birds fly out into the night and strange characters are ominously present.
Kate Mosse has lived in the Fishbourne and Chichester area and here is the setting for The Taxidermist’s Daughter. She knows the area no doubting that, perhaps for me a little too much local knowledge is demonstrated and less would have been more.
Where I felt the book wasn’t for me was I couldn’t get the Gothic style of the novel, I wanted more sinister and scary style.
Our book club had similar comments and overall we scored the novel 3.75/10
Score 3/10
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