The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests

2014 • 564 pages

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Average rating3.6

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November 1, 2014
September 7, 2014

This was my first Sarah Waters book and at first I found it to be long and slow but the more I was reading, I could,'t stop. There's romance, some suspense and some suprises in this book. A great book.

August 19, 2015

It was engrossing, although the last 1/3 dragged a bit. I'll admit I was hoping for a more epic romance, but there is a gritty reality to this that is stunning in its own way.

March 20, 2020
January 20, 2016
November 20, 2014

Meh. Shallowly drawn characters, long boring passages with little payoff. I was hoping for something that gave more a feeling of what it was like to be gay during that time and place.

January 31, 2015
May 6, 2015

The second half is much more absorbing than the first; the whole book is suffused with melancholy, which makes it a good read for dark winter nights.

November 22, 2015