A Prototype Conspiracy Thriller

Dec 2019
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins – Joe Books inc, 2015 (kindle edition)
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This book reminded me a lot of its near contemporary, Dracula, in the way that it promises to break apart the conventions of a Victorian novel and then spends an inordinate amount of time ensuring that it does not do so. This is not entirely fair - Collins is a much better writer than Bram Stoker - but it is frustrating to see the potential of its first half be utterly wasted in the second.
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