“Scarcely had the abbey-bell tolled for five minutes, and already was the church of the Capuchins thronged with auditors.”
Wow! What an appalling book! I had expected something scary but I never expected something quite so perverted. It’s melodramatic and sensational and, while the writing is good, the plot is not necessarily subtle or nuanced. At first, it reminded me of The Mysteries of Udolpho but I soon realized that it was much worse, much, much darker.
Set in Spain during the Inquisition, Lewis’ story follows three main storylines with a cast of intertwining characters.