That's really good to know! I'm glad it's not just me.
In this particular novel, the strong first-person narrator voice offset that somewhat. On the other hand, the Victorian-novel convention of saying something bad is about to happen before it happened killed the element of surprise a lot of the time.
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Date: 2018-07-21 03:45 pm (UTC)In this particular novel, the strong first-person narrator voice offset that somewhat. On the other hand, the Victorian-novel convention of saying something bad is about to happen before it happened killed the element of surprise a lot of the time.