A review by nicktraynor
Villette by Charlotte Brontë

3.0

I am glad I read this book, but it wasn’t as riveting as I had hoped. It took me nearly four months to finish; longer than even War & Peace took me. The protagonist Lucy Snowe was a dour little thing and didn’t evince a lot of interest or sympathy from me until late in the novel. The whole story took a long time to get going. I did enjoy it somewhat by the end, but it was a long journey. I finished the book just a few days after Charlotte Brontë’s 200th birthday. I still love Charlotte’s incredible vocabulary, her vivid imagination and her attention to detail in spite of not loving this particular story.