This review is available to non-members for a limited time. Some might feel a bit shortchanged by what actually happens but most will probably be too mesmerized by the tumult of the sky and sea to pay much attention to what's happening indoors. The Loney puts readers into a fierce, untamed landscape and teases them with the prospect of genuine ferocity. Is that too much to ask after spending so much time cowering under the bed?
Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is. Despite the soft nature of the story, there was still a build of tension and a climatic moment where things could go either way. It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. The novel opens (after a brief and superfluous modern day prelude) with a man burying a dead body in a clearing in a wood, a blend of beauty and horror evoked with such breathtaking poetry that it. His story offers a thoughtful, restrained, and literary denouement but most fans of gothic fiction will want a few doors noisily slammed, a few bell towers to crumble to dust, and maybe even a reanimated corpse. With a gentle pace, a charming setting and interesting characters, it was easy to get swept up in it. But Hurley's narrative never provides the climatic jolt necessary to bring the otherworldly terrors fully into this world. Fans of gothic horror and psychological thrillers will sense the presence of Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, and even Poe, hovering over this book like guardian angels of darkness. In a tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror, Diners passion for Lizzie darkens until she finds herself dangerously alone.
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