A great sequal. Gripping, emotive and intellegent, only let down by a few rambling chapters that have no real direction. A few shocking plot developments. This book is recomended to those that have already read and enjoyed the first part of the trillogy - "Titus Groan".
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This is the generation of fantastical fiction preceding Tolkien. It has something of the macabre creativity of Edgar Allen Poe, but a dark, richly English attachment to the structure of stone, the history of aristocracy, and madness and eccentricity and gloom and despair.
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