“I'm supposed to like this book, right? I mean, it's the quintessential Gothic romance. Well, I'm sorry Mrs. Radcliffe, but I didn't like your novel. I found it tedious. The abundance of travel made me tired. I never got even moderately invested in our heroine; among other things, she fainted far too easily and often. And then there was the complete and total absence of anything supernatural whatsoever (not a drawback for everyone, I realise, but I like a bit of the supernatural in my Gothic...”

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