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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very interesting the way this book provided the back story to the Bronte classic.
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
fast-paced
A book I’ll surely reread and get more out of each time.
Please someone make Antoinette and Jane meet.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Disappointing read. Felt very disjointed towards the end.
challenging
dark
sad
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I didn’t enjoy this book but I can appreciate it and the ways in which it is challenging.
First I wanted to rate this book 4 stars, but the more I think about it (it stays on your mind well after you have finished it), I raised it to 5. It's not something I would re-read... I think... Who knows, after all ? But it left a lasting impression on me, which doesn't happen that often.
Wide Sargasso sea was suggested to me by a fellow reader on Babelio after I published my review of Wuthering heights. It is a prequel for Jane Eyre, my favourite book on the planet. What happened before Jane Eyre, Jamaica, Mr Rochester's first marriage, Bertha's madness, everything is uncovered.
The atmosphere of this story is oppressive. The key word, at least for Antoinette, is safety. The heat, the poison underneath the beauty, the justified anger of the population against their exploiters, the obi (voodoo), the fear of the women left alone, the sense of belonging to a place that rejects you, being brought up like a native child when Antoinette is a white girl, or being of mixed race in the case of her brother.
This was violent. Not only the atmosphere, but also the violence that drove Antoinette's mother crazy and, let's not forget him, the violence of Edward Rochester who drove his own wife to complete madness. There may have been a latent state at the beginning, madness is everywhere in the island it seems, but even if Edward was driven into an unwanted marriage not knowing everything, he participated in it. The Brontë male "heroes" have never been nice, well brought-up characters (think Heathcliff) and Rochester is no exception, in the line of his father and brother. If he had tried to love her, if he had tried to empathize with her, listen to her, this may not have happened.
A short but powerful novel.
Wide Sargasso sea was suggested to me by a fellow reader on Babelio after I published my review of Wuthering heights. It is a prequel for Jane Eyre, my favourite book on the planet. What happened before Jane Eyre, Jamaica, Mr Rochester's first marriage, Bertha's madness, everything is uncovered.
The atmosphere of this story is oppressive. The key word, at least for Antoinette, is safety. The heat, the poison underneath the beauty, the justified anger of the population against their exploiters, the obi (voodoo), the fear of the women left alone, the sense of belonging to a place that rejects you, being brought up like a native child when Antoinette is a white girl, or being of mixed race in the case of her brother.
This was violent. Not only the atmosphere, but also the violence that drove Antoinette's mother crazy and, let's not forget him, the violence of Edward Rochester who drove his own wife to complete madness. There may have been a latent state at the beginning, madness is everywhere in the island it seems, but even if Edward was driven into an unwanted marriage not knowing everything, he participated in it. The Brontë male "heroes" have never been nice, well brought-up characters (think Heathcliff) and Rochester is no exception, in the line of his father and brother. If he had tried to love her, if he had tried to empathize with her, listen to her, this may not have happened.
A short but powerful novel.