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Ok, I haven't had a chance to refine this at all but here are some of my initial thoughts. First off, great book for the "unreliable narrator" theme and I can see this being someone's favorite. Unfortunately, this is totally not my style. I tried (multiple times) to get into this book but I just haven't been able to and I think it's time for me to call it quits.
The first few chapters were too disjointed for me. Bouncing between different points of view and not quite following a consistent timeline.
After that it seemed to settle into the Grace / Dr. Jordan alternating views. I did enjoy Grace't internal narrative and her perspective. Some of her thoughts were wonderfully said:
"I like the clock best of anything in the parlour, although it measure time and I have too much of that on my hands already."
"Whe I first saw it I was surprised, because they say Celebrated Singer and Celebrated Poetess and Celebrated Spiritualist and Celbrated Actress, but what is there to celebrate about murder?"
On the other hand, I hated his internal narrative. He came across as a shallow fraud. His thoughts about the maid at his boarding house were downright awful, and about the lady of the house too. He didn't get much better at the dinner party either.
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