A review by livsinbooks
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

5.0

There are zero stars to knock off for how insufferable Ichabod is. What a piece of shit. The entire first half I was trying to recall if he would die or not and how lovely it would be if he did.

I don’t know what we read in high school but Ichabod was definitely not a Chad the first time around. He really did say all the quiet parts out loud in this story but fuck I still was worried for him. Nostalgia for the cartoon every public school in the US would show when movie day coincided with Halloween time? Maybe. He was a milady type before fedora tipping was a thing and it was very unexpected.

The audiobook was super short and I’ll be picking this up physically. It was definitely worth a listen while cleaning on a rainy day, preparing for storms later tonight.

C 7
Familiar faces. Insufferable characters all around.
A 8
Not quite as spooky as I recalled but still pretty alright.
W 7
Too much. It was just too much about who ichabod was and not enough horseman.
P 6
Same reason as writing.
I 8
Still fun though.
L 9
I forgot the moral of the story and I could still relate it to modern stories and media at its core so… classic.
E 9
Too much.