Really enarmoured by the style of this already - the chaos of the quirky characters, the grimy Victorian London setting, the contrasting humour and horror of the grimdark worldbuilding... I'm also very intrigued by this MC! She is 100% morally inept which I LOVE! I hate when reviews say FMCs are "morally grey" and then they're literally just sarcastic. This girl already has seemingly no qualms about locking a sane woman away in an asylum while she spends her money or even 101 Dalmations style dog mutilation for orofit. Now, THAT is morally grey😆 Also, based on the title, I was sure the MC was going to be some kind of already established pick pocketer but no, she's a newbie to proper grifts which is interesting. Hope the quick pace and nice vibes continue!

Finding Pet Semetary really hard to get into. I read IT over the summer and despite its massive size, I flew through it! I found every one of the characters really engaging, the plot (despite what some reviewers on here have said) very fast paced and I really just couldn't put it down from page 1. Yet, Pet Semetary I've been trying to read a chapter or so a night since the start of the week and despite that chapters being only like 2 pages long, it feels so slow and bla? I feel like absolutely nothing is happening and the main character just has no personality or observations on anything. People who've read it before - does it get better? And Stephen King fans - are all King's books as drastically different as these two? Should I have read sometjing more like IT before jumping into this one?

Saw this described as a wintery read and I want to read more Classics written by women so I wanted to come on here are ask everyone what aspects of this book, aside from the nice language and the fact that its a Classic, made it enjoyable for you? Who were your favourite characters, engaging themes or memorable moments? What makes it worth a read? I want to see if I should put this on my Winter TBR.