A review by rebeccasreadingrambles
Villette by Charlotte Brontë

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. I think it was written so well and it was a quicker read after Volume 1 (once the action picked up).

The ending was a bit strange.

Spoiler

But maybe when the author basically said "I'll let you imagine the happy ending for Emanuel and Lucy" maybe she was telling us that he never came back without telling us. I think I'll choose to think he did and they were happy (Lucy deserves some in her life). I hate to think of her sitting around and waiting for him year after year. Also I'm glad that Dr. John and Pauline finally got married...and he stopped messing around with insincere Guinevere. I was surprised that Pauline's father so disliked the match, but am happy for them in the end.

This was not a book I would have picked up on my own, but I'm so glad it was picked so I got to experience it. I thought it would drag on and on, but it didn't after she got to Villette. Poor Lucy had so many demons to live with...and the people around her did not help! I think Charlotte Bronte did an excellent job describing her depressing and all that was running through her mind. By the end I was despising Mrs. Beck and Guinevere!! I also appreciated that there were not too many characters, so I could actually keep them all straight!