A fun and spooky romp about a haunted house in London. Loved the story, characters and setting! Made for a quick and enjoyable read - very engaging and entertaining!

Wow! Wildfell returned me to my love of gothic mysteries. I devoured this story in 1 day, reading during work breaks, while cooking, in bed and at dawn...I just could not put it down. The adventure of running away to another country, coupled with the paranormal activities in the ancient house and the mystery of the missing tenants had me enthralled from the first page.

Anne is a young woman fleeing from her home and life in the D.C. area after an affair with her professor leaves her reeling and the professor on trial. Telling no on she escapes with a little money and a backpack to London. On the plane she meets two young men one who tells her about a big old mansion he is living in. After moving into Wildfell strange things begin to happen. Why is Mrs. Gates so nervous? Why doesn't her daughter Alice speak at all? What is in the rooms that are closed off? What is the big black cloud that moves through the house? Anne and Bain try to figure out what is going on while beginning and on again off again romance. This book is a suspenseful paranormal romance book that keeps things moving and interesting.

Thankyou to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this wonderful novel.
I found it enjoyable from the very beginning. The characters were engaging and I loved the descriptive setting.
For anyone who loves creepy ghost stories , this is a good book for you. You will not be disappointed.

Anne Fleming boards a plane to London to escape her life, leaving everything she knows behind. She was meant to testify in court, but she just couldn't bring herself to face "him" again. During her flight she meets Bain Tierney, a handsome actor in London, who informs her of cheap lodging in the house where he is staying. Short on money, Anne follows Bain to Wildfell, a gothic mansion with a very peculiar owner. When the tenants begin to mysteriously vanish, Anne discovers Wildfell has a dark history involving several other deaths and disappearances...and she might be next.

Wildfell is a gothic horror novel set in present day London. A deteriorating mansion turned boarding house run by a controlling and unstable owner, offers lodging to some of the individuals who happen to find their way to Wildfell’s doorstep. Most of the tenants are individuals who won't be missed if they happen to mysteriously disappear. Strange occurrences, voices, and malevolent mists set the atmosphere as Anne tries to figure out who or what is behind the missing guests. Although this book was entertaining, the plot revolved mostly around Anne's backstory and her romantic attraction to Bain. Anne often comes across as the helpless female who relies on the handsome actor (who has apparently had relationships with every other female staying in the house) to offer her refuge from harm...well unless one of the other girls are in trouble and he has to run to their aide. I was hoping for a lot more horror and a lot less romance and felt kind of let down by the limited events noted in the book. The plot is still entertaining as long as the reader realizes that this novel is more of a backstory/romance novel than a horror novel.

It took me some time to finally finish the book. Initially, I was interested in the character and why she fled her life in the United States, escaping to England. There were many hints and nuances as to what she left behind but the whole story was not disclosed until the end of the book.

The story centered around, what seemed to be a haunted house. There was a main female character and a cast of both male and female secondary characters. The house itself was definitely a main character.

There was a romance that never materialized between the female character and the main male character. He was not your typical romance hero. In fact, he was unlikable, at times. His moral compass was pathetic. Anyway, the relationship between the two characters was complicated.

I retained one star, as I was unsatisfied with the book's ending. There were just too many loose ends and unanswered questions that were not to my liking. Finally, I was left wanting justice for the character. There just was none. While reading, my mind wandered to all of the scenarios that could have happened to the one character that caused our heroine's flight to England. There were so many ways in which that character could have met his fate. But, alas, none of them materialized. Otherwise, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to readers who want to experience a scary read.

Luxuriant, indulgent and riveting historical supernatural thriller!! I loved that Wildfell was of a length that it took a good few days to read and allowed the central characters to be fully rounded. Would recommend this great read!

This is a spectacular gothic and supernatural wonder. It has some wonderful characters, an amazing setting and brilliant storyline.

Much like Hardy’s Tess, a trauma drives the main character, Anne’s fate. She runs away, and meets a handsome stranger on a plane. He tells her about a mansion that rents out affordable rooms, and she decides to move in while she is staying in London. The mansion is aptly named Wildfell, like the Anne Brontë book.

Creepy things start to happen, and a few bad choices keep Anne at Wildfell long past when she should have left. She started as an anxious character, and seemed to lose her anxious personally by the end of the book, which is what kept this from being a 5 star book for me.

This book had some intense moments, and delivered on being the fun, gothic horror novel I was looking to read. I liked the ending; it felt organic and not forced.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free copy of this ebook in exchange for an unbiased review.

I'm a huge fan of Gothic literature, but I tend to avoid books with modern settings. I usually just don't enjoy them. However, I was intrigued by this book's description, so I gave it a try. It was surprisingly really good. It's rare to find a good Gothic in this sort of setting, but I really enjoyed reading this and would recommend it. It has all the tropes of a Gothic - the heroine has a mysterious past, the hero is dangerous, the house is foreboding, the tone is creepy. There's a central mystery  - who are these people and what's really going on in the house. The heroine is also sympathetic and her choices - even when they lead her to danger - are realistic. You don't end up screaming at her for being stupid, but sympathizing with her because she's in an impossible situation. 

I look forward to seeing more from Clark in the future.

Wildfell tells the tale of Anne Fleming, an American college student who had an inappropriate relationship with a professor, runs away to England and finds herself living in a haunted house among total strangers, dealing with otherworldly phenomenons and a creepy landlord.

The premise, while intriguing, seemed very similar to the Doctor Who episode "Knock, Knock" and the requisite (complicated) romantic subplot between Anne (renaming herself Tessa) and Bain (who fill the requisite "bad boy" stereotype) was (for me) too much of a distraction from distracting the eerie occurrences in the titular house. Anne comes across as a formulaic (almost stereotypical) damsel in distress, making a succession of bad choices; nevertheless, I was invested in the narrative and wanted to know more about the history of the house, and less about Anne's jealous fixation of any girl who took an interest in Bain.

On the cover we can see the Wildfell mansion where Anne will meet.

Everything starts after a short relationship with her teacher, Anne leaves the city, she will make a strange meeting on the plane. She will meet at Wildfell in this Gothic mansion in North London. She will think immediately that it is an ideal place to hide except that it raises questions about this place and its course of deaths and disappearances.

A fiction filled with suspense and twists with endearing characters. The story is captivating, I love the pen of this author.

London Clarke has given me a reason to love the gothic mystery genre again! Lovely writing. I read in one sitting.

If you love gothic mysteries, this book is for you!

I absolutely LOVED this book! Started out a little slow, but once it gets going, you won't want to stop reading. Seriously, just set aside a few hours because you won't put it down.

Creepy atmosphere, strange characters, and some paranormal activity make this book a winner!

This one was a true 3.5 stars. I was really excited to read this one - the whole concept of a ghost story that takes place in a creepy, old English house full of people keeping secrets sounded fantastic. And while it did live up to some of the hype, I feel like the ending left a little to be desired.

Anne decides to run away from her problems in America by hopping on a flight London, where she discovers that an old mansion named Wildfell rents rooms for cheap. But the landlady and her daughter, Alice, are extremely strange. And then weird things keep happening, which is apparently a trend at Wildfell. In a house full of misfits, will Anne survive? Or be Wildfell’s next victim?

This book has a perfect atmosphere to be a great ghost story. And it is creepy. The author does a great job of subtly ramping things up the tension to create the crisis point. It was really intense and very interesting.

But I feel like the ending was a little rushed. Like, there’s the “final confrontation,” really pulling us toward the conclusion, and then....oh yeah, this stuff is what’s been going on, the end. It felt really inadequate compared to the build-up.

If it weren’t for the ending, this could have been a 5-star read. But the conclusion left me a little unsatisfied, which colored my view of the book overall.

Recommended for ghost story fans who like the action, but don’t require thorough resolutions.

This was definitely horror done right. This book nestled itself nicely into your head and let you do the rest. This Gothic house was the perfect setting for this story. I felt that the horror element wasn't too overdone and that I thought about these pages long after reading.

At first this took a bit of getting into, but about a quarter of the way in I loved it, the creepy haunted house and strange people within had me gripped.
Will be looking forward to reading more of London Clarke books.
Thank you netgalley.

I crave Gothic romantic suspense stories and I absolutely loved this one so much that I'm buying it to keep on my shelves. Now I need to check London Clarke's back catalogue to see what I've missed out on!

Gothic Horror has a very specific "feel" and Wildfell by London Clarke nails it. Young protagonist on the run from her past, check. Creepy old mansion, check. Strange and untrustworthy neighbors, check. Mystery, a little romance, and tons of atmosphere, infinite check. Even though Wildfell is set in modern-day London, there were times when I was reminded of Guillermo del Toro's "Crimson Peak," with all the ghosts, spooky atmosphere, and strangeness. This is not a bad thing because I love GDT's "Crimson Peak" as a modern work of gothic horror and Wildfell will satisfy anyone who appreciates an excellent gothic ghost story.