A review by frumpburger
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

4.0

Sarah Waters is a beautiful writer with a real penchant for writing complex, sprawling, Dickensian historical novels with a focus on lesbian relationships, class dynamics, and the London of the past. I won’t rehash the plot here, but suffice to say, while some of the drama in The Paying Guests feels a bit contrived, this novel is, by turns, sexy, romantic, suspenseful and frightening, and there is some real tension and intrigue presented in its pages.

I do believe, in fact, that this is my second favorite Waters novel of the four I have read—after Fingersmith, that is.