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I love this author. I've read the of her books so far and each one has kept me up reading far later than I should. She writes with a very clear, concise voice that doesn't linger overly long on description unless it's necessary but can still make you visualize the scenes. Her people always feel very real as well in their thoughts and actions. Well, for the most part.
I tore through this book quickly because it was very interesting trying to fit the pieces together and trying to guess the mystery. I liked the way the three timelines joined (no pun intended) together fluidly. The characters were all likeable (except one but even she was somewhat pitiable) and some of them surprised me in that because I thought Angelica would be not very likeable but I ended up thinking she was pretty funny and nice.
It's really more gothic in tone, I thought, than her other more supernatural novels so I was a bit disappointed in that there were no ghosts to be found.

Some of them, however, made no sense in their actions and that is mostly what made me give it the lower rating.

Spoiler Alert
Melissa, the mother of conjoined twins, has recently lost her husband (who was a total ass). While in the hospital she was befriended by a nurse named Roz. After the death of her husband Roz informs her that she had a slight affair with Melissa's husband, conceived then lost the child. After this she claims Melissa owes her a child and begins stalking her, eventually telling her outright that once the twins are separated she is going to take one. But Melissa does not tell the police or try to protect herself in any way except by a convoluted deception. That did not seem realistic to me. Partly too, because with all the precautions of having the twins separated in a while different country using a subterfuge she sends one of the twins home with her friend, whom Roz knows, and of course things go poorly from there. It just did not seem like someone would do that. Especially not contacting the police about it.

End Spoiler

While the writing was just as good as it always is these two very not logical things brought it down two stars for me. The time jumps can be a little disorienting if you don't keep the characters and time-frames straight. For people who like a faster paced book this one is more of a slow burn than a string of firecrackers. I happen to like that style because even at its slowest it's never boring but I can see where some people might not.
I do have one teeny tiny nitpick but it's minor and didn't really bother me but it was an anachronism, I think. I could even be wrong so if I am please let me know. In the past portion (1900) Charlotte calls herself a slut for not remembering the name of the boy she first kissed. But I don't think that was the use of the word slut at that time. I think it meant a woman or man that is untidy, unkempt and generally a lazy slob.

I would recommend it but I liked some of her other books better, particularly the Nell West series.


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A Dark Dividing Sarah Rayne 9780743450904 Books Reviews

I really did like this book a lot. It did get plodding at times but it was worth it in the end. It’s just very intricate with a lot of details. I felt like I had been reading it forever. Overall good story, good twist.
This book kept disappointing me for a number of reasons, but firstly it was quite a good book and had a good story line which might have been a little over the top in the believable stakes! I get what the writer was saying even though it didn't really come across as fluid and easy to read. There was too much darting backwards and forwards, from this character to that, and at each turn it got more complicated. There were really a couple of great stories in this one book, but together they were a little messy, probably like this review - it's difficult to put into words how it really was for me. I got annoyed while I was reading it and wished the writer hadn't tried to be so clever, and I also found her a little condescending at times believing the reader wasn't keeping up. But at the same time the writer used some beautiful rarely used words which were a joy to see, and at times her writing was quite poetic.
I think this is the first book I have of hers, and I will certainly read some more to see if this was a one off.
This novel skillfully weaves together the fates of past and present sets of conjoined twins. It's not as relentlessly frightening as the jacket blurbs might lead you to believe, but it does have enough eerie, taut passages to qualify it as a thriller in the neo-Gothic tradition.

I'm not sure that you can trust this book to give you an accurate picture of conditions in society around 1900. Mortmain, the wretched workhouse/orphanage that is depicted as still operating in full swing in the early 1900's, would, in actuality, probably have been a thing of the past by then. Social reforms inaugurated in the late 1800's had gathered momentum and would have generally precluded the existence of Mortmain in all its dank and deadly horror at that turn-of-the-century. The Mortmain as described here belongs to a somewhat earlier, Dickensian period. However, the author had to place it in 1900 in order to make her characters' connections work.

Also, there's something a little unconvincing about Lady Charlotte Quinton's early 1900's diary whose entries are threaded throughout the story, making parallels with the frightening, oppressive dilemmas of the more modern characters. In some ways, Lady Charlotte sounds too modern, too of-a-piece with her late 1900's counterpart. In other ways, she also seems to be harkening back to a more antique time - in the way her lover addressers her, in the types of proprieties that corset her.

These are quibbles though. You presumably won't be reading this book as a historical reference. You'll read it for a chilling tale, and it delivers on that score

"But each time she tried to get free the quicksands pulled her deeper, slopping and squelching as if the marsh were smacking its slabby lips over this unexpected morsel."
"She saw she wasn't laughing; she was gloating."

This book has a cinematic quality in the reading. I wouldn't be surprised if Hollywood came knocking on Sarah Rayne's door for this one. It has rustling Victorian gowns, ghosts, plotted murders, and the telepathy of twins. What more could you ask?
I love this author. I've read the of her books so far and each one has kept me up reading far later than I should. She writes with a very clear, concise voice that doesn't linger overly long on description unless it's necessary but can still make you visualize the scenes. Her people always feel very real as well in their thoughts and actions. Well, for the most part.
I tore through this book quickly because it was very interesting trying to fit the pieces together and trying to guess the mystery. I liked the way the three timelines joined (no pun intended) together fluidly. The characters were all likeable (except one but even she was somewhat pitiable) and some of them surprised me in that because I thought Angelica would be not very likeable but I ended up thinking she was pretty funny and nice.
It's really more gothic in tone, I thought, than her other more supernatural novels so I was a bit disappointed in that there were no ghosts to be found.

Some of them, however, made no sense in their actions and that is mostly what made me give it the lower rating.

Spoiler Alert
Melissa, the mother of conjoined twins, has recently lost her husband (who was a total ass). While in the hospital she was befriended by a nurse named Roz. After the death of her husband Roz informs her that she had a slight affair with Melissa's husband, conceived then lost the child. After this she claims Melissa owes her a child and begins stalking her, eventually telling her outright that once the twins are separated she is going to take one. But Melissa does not tell the police or try to protect herself in any way except by a convoluted deception. That did not seem realistic to me. Partly too, because with all the precautions of having the twins separated in a while different country using a subterfuge she sends one of the twins home with her friend, whom Roz knows, and of course things go poorly from there. It just did not seem like someone would do that. Especially not contacting the police about it.

End Spoiler

While the writing was just as good as it always is these two very not logical things brought it down two stars for me. The time jumps can be a little disorienting if you don't keep the characters and time-frames straight. For people who like a faster paced book this one is more of a slow burn than a string of firecrackers. I happen to like that style because even at its slowest it's never boring but I can see where some people might not.
I do have one teeny tiny nitpick but it's minor and didn't really bother me but it was an anachronism, I think. I could even be wrong so if I am please let me know. In the past portion (1900) Charlotte calls herself a slut for not remembering the name of the boy she first kissed. But I don't think that was the use of the word slut at that time. I think it meant a woman or man that is untidy, unkempt and generally a lazy slob.

I would recommend it but I liked some of her other books better, particularly the Nell West series.