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A review by obsidian_blue
The Third Wife of Faraday House by B.R. Myers
3.0
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Not too much to say here. Another author takes on "Jane Eyre" with a twist. I am a sucker for a good Gothic novel, but I have to agree with another reviewer, that the character of Emeline gets on your nerves (okay, I am using my own words here, but she does really get annoying) and there are very few characters in this one and it's really obvious where things are going. I just didn't fully engage with this one at all and found it painful to even get started. By the time we get to Emeline meeting Mr. Faraday and all that comes with it, I was just pretty much over this book.
"The Third Wife of Faraday House" follows Emeline who is waiting for her lover, who is in the British Navy, to propose. Anyone with a clue would have been side-eyeing Emeline, but she's going to keep doing dumb things to the point she causes a scandal and her guardian sends her packing to marry Mr. Faraday after Emeline thinks that she will give herself enough time for her lover to find her and spirit her away. Not a spoiler (it's in the synopsis) Emeline is shocked to arrive at her soon to be husband's home and finds his second wife (Georgina) very much alive and slowly dying.
Coughs, I would have popped smoke out of there so dang fast and written letters all over to get out. But this book takes place in 1816 so the tackiness of the whole thing seems to only have the local reverend and household in an uproar.
From there, we have Emeline stuck and doing what she can to save herself and Georgina. There's some supernatural aspects to this one that didn't really work and I just felt very bored since there was zero sense that anything was really moving forward for a good portion of this.
Not too much to say here. Another author takes on "Jane Eyre" with a twist. I am a sucker for a good Gothic novel, but I have to agree with another reviewer, that the character of Emeline gets on your nerves (okay, I am using my own words here, but she does really get annoying) and there are very few characters in this one and it's really obvious where things are going. I just didn't fully engage with this one at all and found it painful to even get started. By the time we get to Emeline meeting Mr. Faraday and all that comes with it, I was just pretty much over this book.
"The Third Wife of Faraday House" follows Emeline who is waiting for her lover, who is in the British Navy, to propose. Anyone with a clue would have been side-eyeing Emeline, but she's going to keep doing dumb things to the point she causes a scandal and her guardian sends her packing to marry Mr. Faraday after Emeline thinks that she will give herself enough time for her lover to find her and spirit her away. Not a spoiler (it's in the synopsis) Emeline is shocked to arrive at her soon to be husband's home and finds his second wife (Georgina) very much alive and slowly dying.
Coughs, I would have popped smoke out of there so dang fast and written letters all over to get out. But this book takes place in 1816 so the tackiness of the whole thing seems to only have the local reverend and household in an uproar.
From there, we have Emeline stuck and doing what she can to save herself and Georgina. There's some supernatural aspects to this one that didn't really work and I just felt very bored since there was zero sense that anything was really moving forward for a good portion of this.