Her voice is somehow a fascinating dichotomy of powerful and subtle powerful in that it’s clear and consistent throughout, and subtle in that it quietly takes a backseat to the narrative and never overwhelms it. It might be wordy, but each of those words matters. The prose is dense but lovely, Dickensian in both thoughtfulness and verbosity. “If love were an archer someone had put out its eyes, and it went stumbling about, blindly letting loose its arrows, never meeting its mark.”įirst off, I have to talk about Perry’s writing style. I was incredibly surprised by how much I ended up loving it. I’m so incredibly thankful that I did, because this novel was gorgeous. However, when Tom Hiddleston was cast as one of the leads in the television series, I knew I had to finally dust it off and read it. I bought it at a library sale because the cover is stunning, but it sounded more than a bit slow, and I’m not a huge reader of historical fiction. I didn’t expect to love The Essex Serpent. This is another of those books that’s been sitting on my shelf for years, but news of an upcoming adaption made me finally pick it up.
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