3.64 AVERAGE

challenging reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Decent beginning, better middle, great ending.
challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated

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This was a very dense book for me, and especially at first I could not get into it. But after the first 20 pages I was hooked! I could relate it to my own life oddly enough! a great read once you get into it!

Not Eliot’s best work by any means. The political climate of the book is interesting, but Felix Holt himself is exasperating. His treatment of Esther is what we’d call “negging” here in the 21st century. So what if she likes to read Byron, Felix?

Be on the lookout for a scene that precisely mirrors the “I am your father” scene in The Empire Strikes Back.
challenging reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

George Eliot is wonderful and I stand in awe of her intellect. I was glued to this book: a moral, social and legal thriller. Many of Eliot's themes are echoed in Hardy eg 'Adam Bede' and 'Tess'. Hers is a portrayal of the working class which is real and honest and loving, not always romanticised. Dec 1998.
informative reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

George Elliot, Mary Ann Evans, knows how to build characters, like watching a movie!
slow-paced

As expected, much less complex character wise than her later worn, with the social ideas less at play. But still shares the larger themes of her work, and I’m fond of much that’s in here. Not the relationship between Esther and Felix though, and not what it says about marriage.