I've been hearing everyone rave about this author for ages, but hoo, boy. The narration of this audiobook basically ruined it for me. The narrator with the American accent isn't supposed American? And the character who IS American talks in a really weird over-enunciated way that no American does? And the really terrible British accents? Oof. I should've known the narration would be bad, given who said narrator is. I've been annoyed by all their performances, at least in books. The writing is gorgeous and the story itself isn't bad, but the narration and the info dumps and the weirdly informal writing style? No, thanks. Just go read The Fall of the House of Usher and skip this not-very-good retelling.