Plain Bad Heroines

Deliciously spooky book that got under my skin and buzzed in my ears when I wasn't reading it.

Danforth's tale within a tale (within a tale) surprised me at times and also made me laugh. The descriptionns were vivid, clear and at times cloying. I loved the catty omniscient narrator channeling Jane Eyre and found myself unable to put it down like the very heroines with their tattered, cursed manuscript.

I found the ending somewhat disjointed as it both seemed to stop short and just whither away. I was disappointed that such premise seemed to come to little, I wanted so much more.

But while I read it the high-pitched voices of the girls haunted me from the pages and I heard the yellow jackets in the air. Definitely a book to immerse oneself in.