ticianeaneane 's review for:

Silas Marner by George Eliot

3.0

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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 It's refreshing for me to read a classic about early 19th century's working class. It took me a while to get used to Eliot's writing style (but English is my second language), but I enjoyed the book. It's almost like a fable: characters with one strong trait, a moral lesson in the end and it's fairly short... And that's what gets me. Everything is rounded up, characters are either good or bad and I would like it more if it were a little bit longer. Deep down I recognize it's a beautiful and sweet piece, maybe I'm just becoming a curmudgeon.