lavendermarch 's review for:

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

2.0

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This was... something. I can't say I liked the main character, although I admired how she managed to overcome most things thrown at her. The book was mainly about her torrid love life (5 husbands and a few other men besides) which happened to (unnecessarily) include incest. EW. The second half of the book (highwayman husband onwards) was the better half, with more interesting things going on. That said, I can't say I was every really into the book. It took me a ridiculously long time to read (it halved my reading rate thanks to the archaic writing style) which definitely didn't help. Also, Moll was a shit mother. She abandoned like all of her kids to her husbands/their families after a while. Geez. Also the book had preachy tones at the beginning and the end which was annoying. I only read this because I had to for college. Ugh. 2 stars.