I tried hard to have patience for this novel, but in the end once I stopped putting effort into reading it I found it hard to get back to it. I had hoped to enjoy the satire but it fell flat for me so all that was left was the ever so polite dialogue and the final point where the satire began. It only began to get interesting once that had all passed and we learnt how the events came together, but by that point I had already lost interest and found myself skimming past the important bits just to finish the book. I didn't care much for the characters and I found it hard to even keep them apart what with the similar sames (I can see why it's recommended to not have multiple names start with the same letter) - this was made worse by the nice gap I left between starting and finishing.

I wish it had been a Gothic horror novel in the end because as it stands now it doesn't feel much like a parody as it is "look at this foolish girl and what happens when she reads too much of one genre" - but without the subtleties. I didn't become any wiser reading this book and I barely took anything away from it. I would have liked to enjoy it more - especially when I did know what this book was going to attempt before getting into it - but I just found it a wasted attempt on my part. The setting and the language was all I was able to enjoy from it and I need more than that to have an enjoyable experience, more so when reading classics that have a noticeable different storytelling style than what we're used to nowadays.