A review by ashleylm
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore

3.0

This is really a disappointment, but can't be a 2-star book because both the quality of prose and my expectations were so high. I'd been convinced this might just turn out to be one of my favourites (love the title and premise), but such a let down. I suppose I wanted more plot--how to protect the Collection, why did this happen, etc., and instead most of the plot was about some dreary non-girlfriend with all the effervescent personality of a dishcloth, and the highest stakes were about whether to go dancing or dreaming instead.

I'd love someone to take the premise and really run with it, the way that Buffy the Vampire Slayer the TV show ended up 1,000 times better than Buffy the movie.

(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).