A review by danskireads
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

1.0

This was really hard work. There are wonderful cul de sacs of flights of fancy… Clarke has an amazing imagination… but it’s wrapped up in a meandering, pointless, tedious, directionless, boring story filled with unlikeable characters. It’s a 1000 pages and there’s no pay off at the end. To my mind, this book fails at the first hurdle for a book of this genre… it fails to entertain.