140 reviews for:

The Last September

Elizabeth Bowen

3.46 AVERAGE

leemsreads's review against another edition

3.0

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had to read for uni so i couldn't enjoy it

taranim's review against another edition

2.0

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

efredericks's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

cosmological's review against another edition

5.0

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It’s like a nightmare that you even you should begin to talk. I thought you were a rock: I was safe with you. Gerald, really, this is all like a net; little twists of a conversation knotted together. One can’t move, one doesn’t know where one is. I really can’t live at all if it has all got to be arranged. I tell you: even what I think is my own, and Mrs Montmorency comes bursting into my room at nights. Even Marda—nothing we said to each other mattered, it hasn’t stayed, she goes off to get married in a mechanical sort of way. She thinks herself so damned fully—it’s cheap, really. All that matters is what you believe—Gerald, you’ll kill me, just standing there. You don’t know what it’s like being a snail….being walked on.

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LOIS IS A LESBIAN.

jerma985's review against another edition

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this was so .... long? and it isn't!!! its only 200 pages but it took me twice as long as usual to finish it. just nothing gripping me here, didn't care about anyone or the tense irish war in the background.

pedantic_reader's review against another edition

3.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

too_many_megans_2's review against another edition

4.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

deirdremd's review against another edition

3.0

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3.5 stars
A book about a particular point in time, one month prior to Civil War in Ireland and the last hurrah of the Big House. It’s a coming of age story, but also reflects the slightness and shallowness of life for young women at the time.

olivia_fdf's review against another edition

2.0

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*2.5*

queenace34's review against another edition

4.5

informative lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes