Don't get me wrong! I like poetry - in reasonable-sized doses. 75% of this 'novel' is simply poetry without rhyme, and it takes a very long time for the author to get around to actually telling the story. The premise was interesting - Victorian setting, seances, unusual characters, etc - but it was the prose - THE PROSE - THE ONGOING, EVERLASTING PROSE! that did me in. I finally just skipped to the third and last part just to find out that the thinly disguised plot turned out just as I had suspected no surprises there, either. Not by the mid point of the first part - or the second part. 25-, 30-, 50-hour stories are a delight - as long as they can hold my attention, and most do. Let me preface this by saying that I like LONG books. Literary raves? Not if you like PLOT AND ACTION!
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