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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
I'm done with Brontës. I feel like I've given them enough of a chance, but that's it, I'm out.
This barely squeaks by with a 2-star rating, which is only for the first part, that's told from the POV of Gilbert, and is just about gossipy country people. Fergus is actually pretty funny!
Unfortunately, that's it for levity. After that it's all violent alcoholics throwing chairs and having indiscreet affairs and being generally totally horrible. Anne Brontë has no subtlety. The bad guys are REALLY EFFING BAD and literally going to hell, and the good guys are oh so perfect and don't really drink and get in the fields to work with their tenants and have lovely dogs and are quite pious and godly and everybody ends up happily married with tons of money and children, but they didn't have to feel guilty about any of it because they never did anything wrong. I don't even think they had one single kiss when they were unmarried, they just, like, hugged.
Everything was super predictable but it took forever to get there. I'm out, Brontës. I'm out.
This barely squeaks by with a 2-star rating, which is only for the first part, that's told from the POV of Gilbert, and is just about gossipy country people. Fergus is actually pretty funny!
Unfortunately, that's it for levity. After that it's all violent alcoholics throwing chairs and having indiscreet affairs and being generally totally horrible. Anne Brontë has no subtlety. The bad guys are REALLY EFFING BAD and literally going to hell, and the good guys are oh so perfect and don't really drink and get in the fields to work with their tenants and have lovely dogs and are quite pious and godly and everybody ends up happily married with tons of money and children, but they didn't have to feel guilty about any of it because they never did anything wrong. I don't even think they had one single kiss when they were unmarried, they just, like, hugged.
Everything was super predictable but it took forever to get there. I'm out, Brontës. I'm out.