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In a genre where "the gore and gristle of serial killers can become overly fetishised", he continued, "the deaths are tough to watch without being explicit, restrained without sacrificing the necessary shock value".

Set in the mid-18th century, it is a classic tale of haves and have-nots filled with gristle and grit, limitless horizons, scenes of suffering, reversals of fortune and cathartic recognition.

It’s the connective tissue — the gristle — between the kills that is seriously lacking.

And when that happens, those individuals — whether made of ink and paper or blood and gristle — should see specialists for examination and treatment.

I suppose there's only so much originality to be mined from a universe bent on peeling every last bit of gristle off its main story.