A review by jessica90
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H.G. Wells

3.0

Starts out great with a young woman who yearn for freedom and independence and tries to achieve it by leaving her father's house and living on her own in London. I really enjoyed her journey, with its highs and lows. Ann Veronica is a complex character, intelligent and brave but also naive and thoughtless. She's trying to find herself in this time where new ideas of feminism were challenging the old conventions of womanhood, sometimes with violent means. Then comes the forced and cliché HEA which cancels out Ann's character growth and ruins what could have been an amazing, realistic bildungsroman with a side of romance. Disappointed.