Josh Hedgepeth’s Reviews > Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell > Status Update

I'm enjoying this enough to finish it, but there are a lot of reasons this isn't the best book for me. I've a general dislike of Regency/Victorian settings. It is a vocabulary and style that I've always struggled with. Deeper than that, Strange and Norrell are very different than I envisioned. They are less likable than I'd hoped, and their story very slow building. Still, it is well crafted and compelling.

It took me nearly a third of the book but I'm finally hooked.

So far, this is the kind of book that could go either way (love or hate), Which is better than a general feeling of mediocrity.