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A review by ccil541
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
3.0
I would have given this 3.5 if I could. It was a worthy read and I'm glad I read it once, but boy, I am not sorry to be through with the heroine's purple prose.
Abbott tried to write this in the style of the period, which I like as a stylistic choice, but I swear, Marion Seeley shares some DNA with Bella Swan. She surrenders to a man, which I get was a big deal back in the day, but I really didn't need 5 chapters bemoaning her weakness. It made the book drag - I almost stopped reading in part 2. Though I'm glad I didn't.
Once the real action starts, once Ginny starts getting jealous, then it got worth reading. The plot moved quickly, which works for me. And once the bad stuff started going down, I felt a lot more empathetic to Marion - maybe it's just my own limitations in my impatience for period heroines, but I couldn't stand it. But confronting murder, betrayal, dismemberment, that's going to terrify most people. That's going to send most people into paroxysms of fear and despair. It felt much less like the Perils of Pauline and much more like a proper thriller. I liked the end. I liked the twist. If the first parts were tighter this would have been 4 or 5 stars.
I don't know. It was a decent book, worth my time, but the style was extremely offputting.
Abbott tried to write this in the style of the period, which I like as a stylistic choice, but I swear, Marion Seeley shares some DNA with Bella Swan. She surrenders to a man, which I get was a big deal back in the day, but I really didn't need 5 chapters bemoaning her weakness. It made the book drag - I almost stopped reading in part 2. Though I'm glad I didn't.
Once the real action starts, once Ginny starts getting jealous, then it got worth reading. The plot moved quickly, which works for me. And once the bad stuff started going down, I felt a lot more empathetic to Marion - maybe it's just my own limitations in my impatience for period heroines, but I couldn't stand it. But confronting murder, betrayal, dismemberment, that's going to terrify most people. That's going to send most people into paroxysms of fear and despair. It felt much less like the Perils of Pauline and much more like a proper thriller. I liked the end. I liked the twist. If the first parts were tighter this would have been 4 or 5 stars.
I don't know. It was a decent book, worth my time, but the style was extremely offputting.