Strange coincidence, I ALMOST finally picked up The Secret History right after it. But then I decided I needed something without secrets or history. 😉 The White Devil is quite full of both and was frankly exhausting!

I would love that! I have never advance-read a book before!

…aaaand I’m sold. Thanks for the review; I’m off to my wishlist!

And what does Andrew’s father do that he can get his son into Harrow at no notice?

Apparently not! Do you want me to send you my copy? It’s only an ARC but you could read it and it would be free. 🙂

She means, like, coughy, germy, tuberculosis disgusting. Not Melrose Place disgusting.

Or if there are good jokes. I loved Joan Wyndham’s London in wartime diaries, because she was so damn funny, and because there was an edge of real tragedy to it, even though there wasn’t a plot, per se. I’d up your figure to nine out of ten.

Ummmm, there are some slightly gross things. I wouldn’t have used the adjective “disgusting”, but the book was all gothicky, so that gives me a bit of distance on the gross stuff. So I don’t know.

>>>he was moody, tragic and passionate, which are some of my favourite things for people I don’t have to deal with every day to be.

I laughed out loud when I read this. I feel this exact way about so many people, from Byron to Sylvia Plath. I love reading about them, but God, can you imagine if they were your sibling? (Or, well, yes, Byron’s sibling was apparently happy about it, but, ew.)

There are anyway a LOT of plot elements. You will never be bored. I can guarantee that. 🙂