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The Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy
3.5 stars.
If you'd asked me yesterday, I would have been like "Uuuuuuuugh, this book is so slooooow why is nothing happening why is it taking me so long to reeeeeeeeeead???". And then today, I somehow sped through like 250 pages without even noticing. Whut.
I think that's a complicated way of saying that it took me a LONG ASS TIME to get into this book, but the second half was ridiculously compelling and I basically couldn't put it down.
It's a story that's very much driven by the interactions between characters and which kind of feels like a less rage inducing version of Wuthering Heights?? Like, there are people marrying people they don't love all over the damned place. And then pining for the person they DO love, who's just married someone else. And then having clandestine meetings.
Frankly, it was a little bit soap opera-y, which may be why I flew through the second half. So I'm glad I reread it, if only to realise that not every Hardy book is the misery-fest that Tess of the D'Urbervilles is. Will I forget the entire plot by this time next week? Probably.
If you'd asked me yesterday, I would have been like "Uuuuuuuugh, this book is so slooooow why is nothing happening why is it taking me so long to reeeeeeeeeead???". And then today, I somehow sped through like 250 pages without even noticing. Whut.
I think that's a complicated way of saying that it took me a LONG ASS TIME to get into this book, but the second half was ridiculously compelling and I basically couldn't put it down.
It's a story that's very much driven by the interactions between characters and which kind of feels like a less rage inducing version of Wuthering Heights?? Like, there are people marrying people they don't love all over the damned place. And then pining for the person they DO love, who's just married someone else. And then having clandestine meetings.
Frankly, it was a little bit soap opera-y, which may be why I flew through the second half. So I'm glad I reread it, if only to realise that not every Hardy book is the misery-fest that Tess of the D'Urbervilles is. Will I forget the entire plot by this time next week? Probably.