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A review by museofbookmares
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
2.0
This was disappointing, but I suppose a case of a book written by a teenager with wonderful ability but no sense of the world outside herself.
It was overly frustrating. Normally I like books that take place entirely inside the mind of the protagonist, or even that revolve around intensely unlikeable characters, but Sybylla wasn’t interesting enough to warrant that. She didn’t grow as a person either, instead headstrong and ranty and preachy all the way.
I will read more of Franklin’s work - I like her feminism, her way with words, the life within her prose. But this one didn’t work for me; it didn’t ebb or flow, the character made the same mistakes over and over.
We were supposed to root for her stubbornness instead of her happy ending, and for her hurting a man merely because he was a man instead of loving him.
Eye rolling all the way home.
It was overly frustrating. Normally I like books that take place entirely inside the mind of the protagonist, or even that revolve around intensely unlikeable characters, but Sybylla wasn’t interesting enough to warrant that. She didn’t grow as a person either, instead headstrong and ranty and preachy all the way.
I will read more of Franklin’s work - I like her feminism, her way with words, the life within her prose. But this one didn’t work for me; it didn’t ebb or flow, the character made the same mistakes over and over.
We were supposed to root for her stubbornness instead of her happy ending, and for her hurting a man merely because he was a man instead of loving him.
Eye rolling all the way home.