There is sokmething very half-baked about this book. The descriptions and atmosphere are convoluted, with a strong whiff of thesaurus abuse. Characterisation is poor, occasionally even slightly disdainful. I did not get the sense thst the author liked or even believed in his own protagonists, which has the unfortunate effect of also rendering them unlikable to the reader.
The American perspective is jarring and exactly the kind of over-romantic Olde-English faux gothicism I usually try to avoid like the plague. As a Northener, I would say that despite being set in North Yorkshire, almost nothing of the English Northern character or landscapes is captured whatsoever, bar a couple of adequately observed descriptions of the moors. And by the way, Haworth is nowhere near York, it's in the Pennines. A waste of a perfectly good title and my shillings and pence.
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