This book has been compared by other reviewers to The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd, and I think that's a fair comparison. If you like one, perhaps you'll like the other. However, neither of these books are particularly appealing to me. 
 I didn't actively hate this book, exactly, but it was boring and predictable and the characters -- especially the main character, but all of them really, even this author's really strange version of Poe -- were just flat. 
 ARC provided by publisher through NetGalley.