Plain Bad Heroines

An entertaining gothic with supernatural elements and a lot of Sapphic romance. The only thing that bothered me about this was the occasionally odd sentence structure and some of the txtspk going over my head. I may be a millennial but we don't all know every meme-y acronym going! The prose is written in a very conversational tone, constantly referring back to you as ‘Dear Readers' that did get a little tiring towards the end.

The story (stories) itself was engaging and suitably creepy. I enjoyed the swapping back and forth between the present and the past with the varying intricacies of the curse of Brookhants. Despite some of the meme-speak, I did find myself liking the present day chapters a little more. Yes, it is quite long with these dual-stories, but you can't really have one without the other.