For example, there's something in the description about there is "much still alive" in Highgate Cemetery, but the cemetery is of zero importance to the story, and there is nothing at all going on there until the very, very end when suddenly there are a bazillion ghosts hanging out waiting to fly around on some crows. The premise isn't bad, but the story didn't really back up the description on the jacket. Maybe instead of using a phrase from one from one of the most celebrated poems (ironically written NOT a Victorian poet, yet the book is heavy with Victorian references) it should have just been titled Throwing the Baby Out With the Bath Water. The whole book rests on some pretty flimsy characters making some really bad decisions. I thought maybe that level of tongue-in-cheek surrealism would also be found in the novel. I read Bizarre Romance, a hybrid short story collection/graphic novel that Niffenegger did with her husband, and I really loved how, well, bizarre some of the stories were. I'm not really sure why.probably for the sake of this year's reading challenge.
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