After finishing the big Expanse space opera, I needed something different so I picked this up based on the reviews. I liked it a lot. It's exactly as advertised: gothic, so if you know gothic lit, you'll be in familiar territory. There's a Lovecraft vibe in there too except the racism and eugenism lie clearly with the "bad guys", not shoehorned but entirely in character for the old British colonial type.
A nice page-turner.