Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

Five stars -- and I don't usually like historical fiction:

I looked forward eagerly to the publication of "Fingersmith," and Waters didn't let me down. I don't usually read historical fiction, because it so often is heavy-handed and trite. But Waters captures the Victorian tone & sensibility so skillfully, while keeping her writing fresh, surprising, and original. Her novels contain familiar elements of Victorian fiction--teeming London slums, forbidding country manors, mysterious young women prone to fainting--while also giving voice to realms of female... more info

Makes me want to read more Sarah Waters:

This book was quite good and makes me eager to read her other novels. Waters accurately captures the seedier side of Victorian England--the pickpockets and fences, erotic book dealers and collectors, madhouses and inmates--in a richly complex novel that starts out slow but becomes un-put-downable at the end of Part 1. The characters are well-written; the dialogue seems real; the intrigue is engrossing. Unlike much of the trite, stereotypical works that pass for "good" lesbian fiction, Waters manages to... more info

You pearl!:

Any critisisms aimed at Fingersmith have tended to focus on dislike for the twistiness of the plot. I can see that some people would not enjoy this - I know in some other twisty stories I've felt betrayed by the writer - but perhaps because I don't read much in this line, I enjoyed it all immensely.

My interest was sustained throughout because certain things remained true throughout - the feelings between Sue and Maud most importantly.

Best of all, it is a book which combines the thoughtful slowness of... more info

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