A review by majarubyrose
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

2.5

I initially really enjoyed this but it fell apart in the middle and was all a bit downhill from there. The villain reveal was boring and didn't feel connected in an interesting way (honestly I though Rob was going to be a Jekyll and Hyde character, especially given the comment from Lydia about him being named after Robert Louis Stevenson) and the climax was emotionally bland to me. It has a lot of potential and I really liked the idea, but ultimately it was a letdown. Also, given it was written by an academic about about academia, I found the academic bits reeeeallly surface level and often dull. But I'm not a huge fan of Dickens, so maybe it just wasn't for me.