Mrs. Poe

Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this novel about France's Osgood, poet and maybe mistress of Edgar Allen Poe. I like Fanny's voice and the description of New York during the 1880s...so many creative and brilliant minds all cavorting together. But Cullen may have let her imagination get the best of her, being a bit liberal with the haunting and sinister (?) Mrs. Poe. Also all the bodice clutching and dithering between the almost robotic Mr. Poe (really, someone with so little sense of humor was a chick magnet?), and Mrs. Osgood teetered between melodramatic and tedious. Still if you like your historical fiction heavy on the fiction, it is a fun read.

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