Well, this was a fun book to read! It was off of what I'd consider my "normal" track for a book, and it's just not something I'd ever normally pick up. I enjoyed the gruesomeness and the little trip into darker fantasy/horror juxtaposed against that Victorian style of writing. It was such a strange contrast! Was this fine literature? No. Parts of it were choppy (no pun intended) and didn't make much sense. If you want literary dark literature, read Poe. You read Alice in Zombieland when you're feeling similar to how you feel when you want to watch that B-movie that's "so bad, it's good."