Angela Meyer

Superior Spectre

Dearna Mulvaney

For full review: https://wordsoftheroses.com/2018/09/0...

“This water is so clear I can lean over and see myself. I am Narcissus, in love with the image of my suffering, fixed in place and soon to drown.” ⠀

Thank you so much to Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for sending a copy my way!⠀

This book was marketed with a link to the Outlander series and Margaret Atwood’s dystopian feminism. While it does have the same vivid historical setting as Outlander, I will say this book leans more to the dystopian side. There is quite a dark and gothic tone to this story.

Jeff has skyrocketed to the top of my most hated characters. He is a self-indulgent and self-absorbed man. He spends his time lamenting all the horrible things he’s done, trying to prove he is a changed man while the same time refusing to stop taking the drug that allows him to invade the mind of Leonora.

 A Superior Spectre  is at times disturbing but wholly engrossing, a cautionary tale of greed and the misuse of science in gothic proportions. Meyer brings a strong voice to the Australian literary scene and I’m excited to see what she does next.

Superior Spectre

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