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Mere Mortals

By Erastes

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| Others | 9781590210437

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Book Description

Orphaned Crispin Thorne has been taken as ward by Philip Smallwood, a man he's never met, and is transplanted from his private school to Smallwood's house on an ...

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This book is labelled as "gothic mystery", but to be honest the main mystery is spoilt alredy in the cover. If you read the synopsis and then watch the cover, you can understand what the "mystery" is about (at least I understood it).
The problem of this book is that it's very imbalanced.
For the fi ... (continue)

This book is labelled as "gothic mystery", but to be honest the main mystery is spoilt alredy in the cover. If you read the synopsis and then watch the cover, you can understand what the "mystery" is about (at least I understood it).
The problem of this book is that it's very imbalanced.
For the first 23 chapters, we follow the three main characters in their new life in their guardian's house. We see them eating, taking classes, walking around, talking, etc etc, and every now and then the author leaves a "clue" about the above-mentioned mystery. Nothing more happens in the first 23 chapters.
In the last 3 chapters, all is revealed, and events unfold so quickly that some of the previous "clues" are left without explanation. So we are left wondering about, for example, a certain sentence, or about the behaviour of a certain character.
The real mystery of the book is "who loves who". The two love stories of the book come out the blue at the end of the book, and in this case too no great explanations are given (especially for the main love story). This happens also in another book by Erastes (standish) and I don't like it very much. I prefer when the characters take more time to fall in love with each other, and when we see the reasons why the do it.

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