Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling, (Paperback)

from noranydrop2read

Charlotte Markham is the widowed governess at Everton, home of the handsome widower Mr. Darrow and his two sons. When Nanny Prum is murdered, Charlotte takes on a greater role in the boys' lives. She reluctantly agrees to take the children through the fog to the mysterious House of Darkling, wher...

from jen.e.moore

I didn't *mean* to finish this book in two days. It just kind of happened. I don't quite know how to describe it - not horror, because it wasn't especially scary, but something more than fantasy. It reminds me most strongly of the film The Orphanage.

from ReviewsFromTheHeart

This is not your Disney water color fairy tale, but something much darker along the lines of the Grimm fairy tales when you open the cover of Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael Boccacino. You are immediately taken back to the Victorian age and the writing is unremarkable and p...

from mountie9

The Good Stuff The prose is so hauntingly beautiful Story so elequently puts into words the feelings I have had over the loss of my parents -- the part about dreaming of the dead brought tears to my eyes Dark and gothic story full of old english manors, governess, death and the paranormal -- dark...

from whitewavedarling

Filled with the gothic and the grotesque, this is an interesting tale, if somewhat old-fashioned stylistically. Unfortunately, so much attention is placed on detail that it begins fairly slowly, the characters and the plot both taking a backseat to a rather over-embellished writing style and a sl...