Where Angels Fear to Tread - Lynn's Take

Where Angels Fear to Tread is E.M. Forster's earliest work, and for that reason, I suppose, it's important.  E.M. Forster's writing is light and unobtrusive - he draws his characters and moves the story along without the (superfluous, to me) literary flourishes so common in writing from the early 20th century.  And already, in Where Angels Fear to Tread, Forster's caricature of upper-class English provincialism and snobbery is well drawn, as is the charming Italian setting.  The storytelling in this, his first novel, however, is clunky when compared to his later works.  This applies especially to the ending of the story, which is abrupt in the extreme and not foreshadowed enough, so that it seems tacked on.

I'll not tell any of the story, because although the ending is clunky, the story as a whole is quite satisfying and deserves to unfold as it is read.  Have fun, Kelli and Caitlyn!