A review by franklinfantini
The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe

2.0

I didn't give this one star because it wasn't completely horrible, but it was close. I heard from an English teacher that an author is only allowed to expect the reader to accept one unbelievable or irrational thing in a book, well, in that case Radcliffe could have written at least 10 books out of this one. She lost me pretty early on and it kept getting more ridiculous. I usually don't let my rationality to destroy a read, but this one is just so absurd that I couldn't deal with it. If I hadn't been reading it mostly in coffee shops it would have gotten thrown to the floor at least a dozen times.