Absurd
I really wanted to like this book, and I did enjoy the first 250 pages. After that, the book's plot collapses into a confusing, gothic, absurd mess. It's really bad writing when - at the end of the book - the author has to have a character summarize/speculate the motives/reasons/etc. behind the murders. And even then, you'll probably be asking yourself, "what?!"SPOILERS AHEAD - I can't even begin to count how many characters found out that who they thought were their parent(s) really weren't. They should have provided a chart at the end so a reader could understand how everyone was REALLY related to one another. And, the main plot of the book is to find out who murdered Honoria. Oh, you learn the man's alias, but you don't really know who he is and the "why" is a bit sketchy.