A review by wcrobi
Middlemarch by George Eliot

4.0

I was so torn between giving this a 4 or a 5 star because this book, truly, engrossed me by the end. Eliot could have leaned more into the role of the narrator as historian/direct recounter (much like Woolf did in Jacob’s Room), but that style came after Eliot was active… so she gets a pass. Overall, a great book of politics merged with romance merged with drama, a combination I wasn’t expecting to get into at first but which pleasantly surprised me by the end.