A review by jeanne25
Hidden Company by S.E. England, Sarah E. England

2.0

I picked this book because of the cover. So many times, I was tempted to quit. I have found that I tend to speed read when pushing myself to finish a book that I can't quite condemn to the DNF list. Grammatical errors tend to trip me up, forcing me to back up, reread and figure out what was meant. The author often used excessive commas and hyphens when breaking the sentence into two or three sentences would have read clearer. There were also many, oh so many, fragmented sentences. What kept me reading, despite the repetitiveness, was the 1893 section about Flora. I would almost swear that two different people wrote the two different timelines. Flora's account was a bit cliche and not terribly original but yet it was interesting. Isobel (2018) was simply illogical, the conversations forced and naive. I really disliked these portions of the story and hurried to get through them. I actually liked the ending to Flora's story but wished I had quit at that 25% mark based on the ending to Issy's story. I wish that the entire book had reflected the talent shown in Flora's sections. The book just wasn't for me.