Book Club - The Thirteenth Tale

As I mentioned in one of my earlier book club posts, I really enjoy reading historical fiction. This proved true again once I had finished reading Daughters of the Witching Hill. The novel was about a family living in Old Britain and how the witch hunts slowly destroyed their family. Usually I really don’t like books where the hero or heroine dies at the end, but despite how this book similarly ended I thought that the ending was inevitable and needed to make the novel even better.

The next novel we’re reading is The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. When we were discussing which book to read next, someone pointed out that a lot of the novels we’re reading are written for a female target audience. When I was reflecting on this point, I realised that the reason I enjoy most of these books is because they fall in the genres I typically like to read. I joined the book club in an attempt to widen my literature vocabulary and this has worked to some extent but not as much as I originally hoped it would.