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Title: The Confessions of Frannie LangtonAuthor: Sara Collins
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 384
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Set in 1826 in London, we meet Frannie Langton, a former slave from Jamaica who has been charged with murdering the couple she worked for.
Review:
There are a lot of things in this book that tick the right boxes for me; it's just the kind of historical fiction that I like, I loved the settings of both Jamaica and London and the whole thing has this fantastic gothic feel to me.
This is a tragic and brutal story and keeps the suspense up through the entire novel. I really enjoyed reading about and getting to know our main character; she's interesting and complicated and we really get to see the inner workings of her mind. I think the side characters are also really fascinating and seeing the relationships between them was really intriguing.
I liked the writing in this and the way it captured the different settings and the atmosphere, but I do think sometimes it feels a little disjointed and get's a little confusing. I think maybe it's supposed to be that way though, so that might just be personal preference.
This is kind of a slow book and I don't mind that but I do think this starts off stronger than it ends; there's a definite dip in the middle of this novel where I found my interest waning and I never quite recovered from that, even though I felt like the end of the book was pretty good.
I would definitely recommend this if you like gothic historical fiction though! It's an interesting and sometimes shocking story with great characters.
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