Lelia

This novel although certainly different nevertheless it is exciting in its own peculiar way, very dramatic, intensely poetic, soft, charming and inviting; and yet by all means the heroine is despairing, terribly gloomy sort of character, suicidal and dark, but mostly she is out of this world, alike a visionary. The book is gentle, romantic in tragic sense of the word, Leilia is kind-hearted and yet doomed, reader grasps by own choice certainly. It is a finely written book, belonging perfectly to its Romantic 19th century era. It is dark, tragic, sentimental. But simply breath-taking. Can't be put down easily. Quite haunting.