Unabridged Audiobook
An atmospheric tale of love, greed and obsession. Braddon is, as usual, less interested in arriving at a cheerful romantic ending than she is in exploring troubled psyches and the lengths amoral people will go to get what they want. Plenty of mystery here but less far-fetched villainy than in many of her other sensation stories. This story includes one of her most intriguing pivotal characters, Olivia Marchmont whose ironclad, almost heroic, willpower and monomaniacal passion make her a strange and scary force to be reckoned with. Wondering what she and the other antagonists will do to foil the heroes is fun and overshadows the love triangle (or, actually, love quadrangle!).
Very entertaining!
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