internpepper 's review for:

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

1.0

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This is arguably the first romance novel from the 18th century. It set the standard for what not to do in actual good romance novels. No one in the story is either believable or likable, the love interest treats Pamela worse than dirt, and this whole romance is Stockholm Syndrome on cocaine. Even when the couple for some ungodly reason gets together, the conflict is wholly uninteresting and frightfully dull and the novel way overstays its welcome. Whoever put this on the 1001 books you must read before you die should be found and beaten with an amputated foot.