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A review by raelovestoread
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins
3.0
The Haunted Hotel was OK. I wasn't wowed. I enjoyed that the hotel was in Venice because I went earlier this month and fell in love with the place. Luckily the place I stayed didn't formerly house any of my dead relatives or generate any eerie bad smells.
I would describe the story and writing as quintessentially Victorian through and through. The sort of tale that would probably be scarier if you were reading it at a time before electric lighting.
This was my first Wilkie Collins, and not his most famous work, so I will reserve judgement on his writing until I've explored The Woman in White.
I would describe the story and writing as quintessentially Victorian through and through. The sort of tale that would probably be scarier if you were reading it at a time before electric lighting.
This was my first Wilkie Collins, and not his most famous work, so I will reserve judgement on his writing until I've explored The Woman in White.