Mr. Dickens and His Carol

I should have loved this, the kind of book that is right up my street. It does have its good points. The atmosphere is captured well and I can't say I hated it. But I didn't love it either. For a start, I think It was a ghost all along! has to be very skillfully plotted. In this case I found it a bit cringy. It was a little too nudge nudge wink wink with the references to a Christmas Carol and his other work, I get what you're trying to do, you can be a little more subtle about it. The ending was quite rushed and seemed to emphasise Dickens raking in magic money (suddenly writing a Christmas Carol is like wining the lottery) then spending it to solve everything. That's missed the point of the original. I feel like I'm being harsh, and I think I would have loved it when I was younger but it didn't touch me that much and I think that was what it was supposed to do.