Book Review: ‘The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice’ by Wilkie Collins
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.27, 2021, under Books
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I usually like Wilkie Collins work. This book gets mired in being over written for the first 2/3rds and, less then than now, typical cute playing games with names ploy. I knew where the book was going early on.
The story starts with a couple characters that are caught in romance and then there’s a bit of trading places and then a death. Then a disappearance. Then the story really drags as the pieces of the story get shuffled further. The last third of the book is the best part of the story, but not worth all to go through to get there. Especially as i saw it all coming in the first 5th of the book.
The characters are very good. A few are too much alike adding confusion to the similarity of names. Very good dialogue. The settings described is the best part of the book. The exterior and interior structures well place the reader at the scenes.
Bottom line: i don’t recommend this book. 4 out of 10 points.
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