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3.14 AVERAGE
3.14 AVERAGE
The main character is absolutely depraved and I just cannot take any more of her disgusting behaviour at the moment ๐ the writing pulls you in but the main character is just turning me off.
I think I'm going to give up on this book. I just read some other reviews and see that I'm not the only one. . . I haven't even gotten to the incest yet that seems to be the stopping point for most people. I think maybe this is another one of those books I'd rather watch a play or a movie version of. It's like being in Iago's head all the time when part of what's great about Othello is seeing the villainy from all sides, the victims, the perps and all the reverberations. This book is just relentless somehow. It feels like one long justification of bad behavior. Maybe I'll pick it back up the next time I have to play a villain. I'll get some tips from this one.
This is just plain silly. I had no preconceptions about Philippa Gregory when I started it, and I initially thought it was a serious historical novel, until it turned into (literally) bodice-ripping trash. The whole thing was so completely implausible. I don't have a problem with such a loathsome main character -- it's quite a challenge writing a book whose "heroine" is so unpleasant -- but did all the other characters have to be quite so stupid and blind? It also seemed to me that in reality, Beatrice would never had had so much freedom and responsibility in that milieu at that time, and simply wouldn't have been able to get away with most of her evil deeds. Suggestions that it is somehow "feminist" because Beatrice is battling agains society's unfairness to women are seriously misguided; she exploits everyone, male and female.[return][return]The story just got increasingly ridiculous, and the prose more purple. But I've given it 2 stars, because despite all that I've said, I finished it :-) And then I abandoned it on a train!
I love how every book gregoery writes looks like a wholesome historical fiction novel but itโs truly the wildest shit ever written and I love it
I'd give it a 0 if I could, this book is all kinds of messed up
Great book! Definitely controversial, but it adds to the drama of the book.
I love Philippa Gregory books, but the anti-heroine of this novel, Beatrice Lacey, is so unbelievably awful, I couldn't wait to be finished and be done with her forever!
Recommend for people who like dark books, dark books that look tame, main character is the bad guy, adoption, karma, incest, pretty character is bad, farming, running an estate
Strangely fascinating--even spellbinding. I didn't want to like it, but I really did. Answers the question: What would a female antihero look like? Here she is, folks.
I wish I could better express how I feel about this book other than just saying I enjoyed and hated it. I think if the story had been from the view of any other charcter (with the exception of Harry Lacey) I think I would have enjoyed it more. I have never in my life hated a main character more than I did Beatrice Lacey. She was selfish powerdriven and the extremes that she goes to to get what she wants are so drastic that it is difficult to relate with her or establish any postive feels at all towards here. The story and the style of the book were wonderful and Gregory does a wonderful job of conveying the mystical beauty of wildacre. I most likely would have walked away from this book with happier of Beatrice were the atagonist rather than the protaganist but nonetheless I have already picked up the next book in the series.