This is exactly the kind of darkly atmospheric gothic style novel that gets me all atwitter. Sooo good. The All Hallows school/ex-asylum = the perfect creepy setting. The kind of place I would probably turn & run from even if that meant being stranded on those lonely moors of Dartmoor.
It had me captivated from the get go. Easy to get sucked into both the timelines and I wasn't ever bothered when they switched back & forth. There were actually three timelines but I viewed the current day one as a kind of foreward & an addendum to the book. The older timelines were the stories that kept me riveted & I liked them both with equal fervor.
4.5 Stars. I would give the book a 5 star rating but the ending was a bit of a stretch for me. I want to fall for it, I truly do, I just can't quite give myself over to it (at least not yet!) Totally worth the read tho!!!
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