A review by bookishwendy
Resurrectionist by James McGee

3.0

This was pretty great from the research aspect (what can I say, it revolves around a pet topic of mine), and the thriller aspect set in regency London was rather fun as well. However, the writing relies on pages of passive-voice sentence structure that serves to distance the reader from the already distant main character, and the pace felt much slower than a thriller should -- this took me almost 2 weeks to read! I also wanted more in the character development department, and I became weirdly distracted by the naming convention for random minor characters (there are SO many random minor characters). One-syllable names, and doubled-up letters: Ragg, Twigg, Dodd, Grubb, Leech... and those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. A decent read if you are already a fan of the genre and time period.