Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Spoiler alert ahead but this book is full of unresolved issues and has a half-pasted together, abrupt, unresolved and unsatisfying ending that leaves the reader trying to guess how we ended up there. Initially this was a lovely tale filled with juicy descriptions, intriguing events and haunting characters. However, so many details are left unresolved: does Ada really betray our heroine (and WHY?), what were Cathy’s motives (the few details given are so hastily and briefly mentioned it is anticlimactic other than she wanted Lionel and apparently had an affair with him so killed his wife...the brief details are not well constructed), how are Lionel and Cathy caught and ultimately flipped into the asylum (and why was Lionel sent there?)...we go from the heroine being accused of being crazy and practically enroute to the asylum herself to suddenly having her brother and sister in law incarcerated - baffling and unsatisfying. Also: is Kitty really dead (and how or why)? Was Dr Mayhew complicit in all of the drama (it is ill used to but never really stated so this is a grey area in the end)? - does he simply get away with what he is doing or are the women of the asylum saved so Alice’s tragic loss has some meaning? - WHO ultimately physically pushed Alice? Was it the worker who Cathy speaks to outside at the end and if so...why would she kill him? What happened to the slides - was the constable finally swayed to who the guilty party was? Did the heroine truly kill her mother as Alice accused or was that flashback a medication induced dream? This book is so promising but in the end, so unresolved. It is very disappointing. I don’t usually write reviews but this book ended up being such a stinker I felt it needed to be shared. I wanted to love this book but was left wanting.