A review by megatza
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton

3.0

I ended up enjoying The Buccaneers quite a lot, but it took about 150 pages (until book 3) for me to really understand the flow. This is the first time I've read anything by Edith Wharton, and I don't generally read books from this time period, but I liked stretching outside of my comfort zone a little and giving it a shot. I still don't understand how, quite literally on one page the character is dressing for dinner and on the next she's been unhappily married for two years without so much as a transition. It was a bit like watching a movie by walking into the room every 20 minutes to watch 5 minutes of a movie and then walking back out again, but then staying and watching the final 20 minutes of the movie in one sitting.

I'd have to read more Wharton, or more from that time period, before I could really comment or analyze this more.

Read Harder 2017: Read a book published between 1900 and 1950 (1938).