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A review by balletbookworm
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid
3.0
Underwhelmed, I must say. Having read through a few Carol Jordan/Tony Hill thrillers I was looking forward to seeing Val McDermid's take on Jane Austen's Gothic parody.
And it was boring, even cliched at times. It walked in lock-step with the original plot - even to giving Cat a weird obsession with thinking Vampires are real. Um, no. And Bella's slang felt put on, as though it were teen dialogue imagined by a pokey adult thinking about what he/she might say were he/she a teen.
And Cat is too young. 17. And Henry Tilney seems to have been "devilling" for several years making him 25-ish. I don't know too many law students/lawyers who decide they want to date a high school student. :/
And it was boring, even cliched at times. It walked in lock-step with the original plot - even to giving Cat a weird obsession with thinking Vampires are real. Um, no. And Bella's slang felt put on, as though it were teen dialogue imagined by a pokey adult thinking about what he/she might say were he/she a teen.
And Cat is too young. 17. And Henry Tilney seems to have been "devilling" for several years making him 25-ish. I don't know too many law students/lawyers who decide they want to date a high school student. :/