stang_gt3 's review for:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
4.0

So I actually have a severe deficit of classics read in my repertoire. I've somehow managed to have never read any of the Bronte sisters before. I am really glad I finally got to reading one of them with this novel. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I actually enjoyed it. I think the most surprising thing for me was for some reason I was expecting the POV to be of the female protagonist not the male. It was interesting to read this story in this epistolary style. I liked the series of letters and then diary entries.

At the end of the day this was actually a beautiful love story between Helen and Gilbert. He's a young man who finds himself head over heels for a woman, but she has a past and it has certainly colored her experience. Ultimately Helen is a good woman and Gilbert has more patience than most men his age to achieve what he wants in the end.