Bellman & Black
By: Diane Setterfield
Genre: Historical fiction/Paranormal
Pages: 336
Published: 2013
Read: September
2 out of 5
I was very excited to read this ARC
since I loved Setterfield’s The
Thirteenth Tale. I felt that premise
of the novel was confusing or at least needed more explanation. There were a lot of characters introduced and
the relationships between them were difficult to keep straight. After I slowed down and grasped all the intricacies;
it did get interesting. I was finally
engrossed, but then the story started dragging and didn’t stop. While I desired a slower pace at the
beginning, and I’m a “prolific” reader, the middle portion needed some
weeding. I loved the characters and
family relationships and would have enjoyed more details on the Bellman family
history. Instead the entire middle was
dedicated to describing dyes and threads for hundreds of pages. While necessary for the plot, I would have
enjoyed more of a connection to the characters and more appearances from Black
to keep the story from putting me to sleep.
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