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georgiehar's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
penn_and_paper's review against another edition
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
4.0
ellephuonglinhnguyen's review against another edition
3.0
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture—still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish; unless, indeed, we have plunged like beasts into sensual indulgence, abused, strained, stimulated, again overstrained, and, at last, destroyed our faculties for enjoyment; then, truly, we may find ourselves without support, robbed of hope. Our agony is great, and how can it end? We have broken the spring of our powers; life must be all suffering—too feeble to conceive faith—death must be darkness—God, spirits, religion can have no place in our collapsed minds, where linger only hideous and polluting recollections of vice; and time brings us on to the brink of the grave, and dissolution flings us in—a rag eaten through and through with disease, wrung together with pain, stamped into the churchyard sod by the inexorable heel of despair.
matritense's review against another edition
Boring and dull. None of the typical Bronte flavor. I see there's a reason why publishers rejected it and Charlotte never published it while she was alive and only as a posthumous event.
anzhelika's review against another edition
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
constance24's review
emotional
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
I loved this story so much, Charlotte Brontë writes so beautifully and creates the most gorgeous and engaging plot. The story develops so throughly and the characters feel like people I’d love to be friends with. It is rare to feel so deeply attached to characters but she achieves it! It’s a true romance in the best possible way.
xanadu_'s review against another edition
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
knittyreader's review against another edition
I got further than I expected to get. Even though listening to this book was way better than reading it, and I tried to read it for years, it is just not the kind of book that's for me I guess. Shame, because I loved other books by Charlotte Brontë before.
kathryn14's review against another edition
slow-paced
0.75
What I first thought to be an epically progressive Brontë gay love affair quickly dissolved into disappointment, alarm (seriously, that guy would be raising all sorts of safeguarding red flags if he was modern day teaching) and frustrated wails of, "DEAR GOD, WHEN WILL THIS BOOK END?!"
Reader, it did end ... Eventually.
1.5/10 - it was almost physically painful to keep reading at times
Reader, it did end ... Eventually.
1.5/10 - it was almost physically painful to keep reading at times