Yes, of course when my Kindle died and I had to go used-book hunting I also picked up the first $2 Gothic novel I found, what else did you expect?

Isabelle Holland's The DeMaury Papers is, nowhere near as off-the-wall bizarre as the first book of hers I read, Trelawny (aka the one with at least seven twin-swaps.) Instead, it goes the other ( Read more... )

Man. I mean. I knew about Isabelle Holland's Trelawny from the posts by Rachel and Sarah Rees Brennan, but there's knowing and then there's experiencing.

I have, now, experienced ( what may be the ultimate modern Gothic OF ALL TIME, , involving rabid rats, an evil North Vietnamese kidnapping plot, and more twin swaps than an entire season of soap operas (plus an ancestral suicide rafter, but no actual suicide. ONLY MURDER. And twin swaps.) )