A review by planty_booky
The Great Lover by Jill Dawson

4.0

I didn't expect to like this book so much, but here we are. I loved this book with my whole soul. It touched me. I liked the love story, of course, but it was so much deeper than that. I liked Rupert, his doubts, his thoughts, his darkness, contrasted by the light and reason of dear Nellie. I didn't like Rupert for his behaviour: reckless, thinking he is better than everyone else, spoiled and quite unnerving. I loved Nell for her sensible behaviour, and the fact that she brings another point of view into the famous Rupert Brooke story. And I hated her also because of her "Miss Know-it-all" character, not accepting criticism. However, I would advise anyone reading this to re-read the prologue after finishing the book: so much things are enlightened, especially Nell's feminism and point of view of women's right, which mademe cringe all troughout the book tbh.

I'm actually studying this book in my English Lit class. This review will be updated.

What I can say at this point is that I love that the writer took all the great characters of the actual life of Brooke, and put them all in one character. By that I mean that lots of quotes said by Nell are actually said by Phyllis, Cathleen or even Noel.