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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
slow-paced
slow-paced
Gonna try to restart this book later in the year
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
informative
relaxing
slow-paced
CW: antisemitism, SA, r*pe implied and later many mentions
I'm doing the Tiktok 2023 Clarissa Challenge! Started two months late, but caught up in less than a week.
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Ought to be titled: "Clarissa, or, the Author Tortures a Young Lady!"
The only good thing about this book is the friend, Miss Anna Howe and her attitude-filled letters! She reminds me of my bffs, so credit to the author for that at least.
But, oh, the villain!!! He is so despicable and so pathetic! I might hate him even more than Heathcliff!
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Final thoughts:
I hate Lovelace more than Heathcliff.
I'm doing the Tiktok 2023 Clarissa Challenge! Started two months late, but caught up in less than a week.
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Ought to be titled: "Clarissa, or, the Author Tortures a Young Lady!"
The only good thing about this book is the friend, Miss Anna Howe and her attitude-filled letters! She reminds me of my bffs, so credit to the author for that at least.
But, oh, the villain!!! He is so despicable and so pathetic! I might hate him even more than Heathcliff!
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Final thoughts:
I hate Lovelace more than Heathcliff.
This book wasn't for me. English isn't my first language so it was really hard to follow what is going on. I just gave up.
This is the first competely epistolary novel I've ever read and I loved it. The letters kept me in suspense with what would happen next. The friendship between Anna and Clarissa is admirable and inspiring and the character of Lovelace as intriguing and complex as characters get. I would have given this book 5 stars, but there were stretches of time without Clarissa's perspective (the one I found most interesting and relatable to me)-particulary the rape scene; and some letters seemed unnecessary to the movement of the plot (and even to the movement of the psychological exploration of the characters). The first can perhaps be attributed to the abridged version, but the latter would not have been helped by the complete novel. I reommend this novel for anyone interested in human relationships, manipulation of these and raw, exposed emotion and motive.
