Reviews - Middlemarch | The StoryGraph

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Middlemarch

George Eliot

4.06 AVERAGE

lemonfrog's review against another edition

4.75

challenging emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

jenlynne26's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mika55's review against another edition

1.0

challenging slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kylalouis's review against another edition

4.25

slow-paced

elsieh's review against another edition

5.0

reflective

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gracierennie's review against another edition

3.5

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jenj0907's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I loved this book, and Dorothea is such a memorable, complex character. Refreshing take on the marriage plot, in which disastrous matches arise from the inadequacies of the courtship process (designed to be an illusion, not to reveal anyone's real character) as much as they do from deep character flaws (especially the men's failure to accept that the girls they courted are actual humans and don't exist just to adore and admire them; I liked that the novel Went There and showed the parallels between Lydgate and Casaubon on that front!) and simply incompatible personalities.