A review by abroadwell
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
4.0
I enjoy this sort of historical pastiche. The parts that are written in the style of Edgar Allen Poe are quite good, and the author also captures something of the flavor of Victorian detective novelists like Wilkie Collins.
There is a scene in the ice house toward the end of the book that struck me as a big broadly written and over the top, but the twist at the end redeemed it for me.
There is a scene in the ice house toward the end of the book that struck me as a big broadly written and over the top, but the twist at the end redeemed it for me.