Maura (maura853) - , reviewed on 12/22/2020 + 542 more book reviews

Mildly intriguing premise, mired down by terrible writing.

I made it as far as I did -- page 92 --because I wanted to see where Farjeon would go with it -- for this, I thought, I was willing to suffer the awful, droning dialogue (literally pages-ful of exchanges like "What do you mean?" "What are you saying?" "WHAT??") and characters that are ghastly stereotypes. (Particularly found the brother/sister combo, the two supposedly "bright young things," very resistible ...)

But it was the appearance of a Cockney villain, straight from 1930s B-movie Central Casting, that finished things for me ... Some authors can do so-called dialect. Farjeon cannot.

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