lostingothicmusic's review
1.0
I tried really hard, but couldn't get into it. I found it really boring, which was odd given the subject matter and genre; I usually love historical fiction. So I struggled through 139 pages and then gave up. Sorry Mr Rathbone, this is the second novel of yours I've read and I just don't think your style is for me.
tomlloyd's review
DNF - not by a long shot. Some of it's fine, but when you're writing historical fiction with an very smug tone and your main character just happens to help victory at Waterloo in the first few chapters, you'd have to be a fucking moron to include footnotes referencing stuff like Rolf Harris. In historical fiction. I don't care if your conceit is that you're somehow editing or presenting this fictional memoir, that's a pretentious approach anyway that I've got little time for and in the face of a TBR pile full of quality work, why would I bother going past page 50?
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