A review by lindseysparks
Romola by George Eliot

3.0

This started off slooooooow. If I didn't l like Middlemarch and wasn't planning a trip to Florence I doubt I would have kept with it. After the first 100 pages, a plot finally appears! And from there it was a surprisingly quick read. Like Middlemarch, the story centers on an intelligent youn woman who marries a scholar and things go badly. This seems odd since the author's life partner was an intellectual. Maybe the point is to look at their character amd not just their intelligence. Savonarola was portrayed more sympathetically than I would have expected and I was pleasantly surprised by Machiavelli's appearance. I liked the ending and think it was somewhat unconventional but nice.