A review by grb8
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

2.0

Engaging, if predictable, first half to 2/3rds, but my god by the last 100 pages was I sick of all of them. And the previously excusable cartoonishness of Huntingdon’s rottenness went beyond the pale. As did Helen’s piety. Whether intentional or not, I’m not sure, but Gilbert is an extremely self-centered narrator. Uncomfortable with his actual childishness being so absolved — and rewarded! — in the last section.

At times those extreme parts of the characters’ personalities are so overplayed that I’d say its satire, but I didn’t get a hint of that from the writing. Just poorly conceived.

The middle epistolary section from Helen’s voice is the most enjoyable section, easily.