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nerdywriter36 's review for:
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
*3.5 stars
I had a really good time with this sweet little story! It's a children's story, yes, but reading it, it doesn't feel like a book for children; the plot is just as captivating for an adult as it would be for a child, and that's what made it so lovely to read. I remember watching both the movie and the play about this story when I was younger, so the plot was familiar to me, but it was really nice to get to revisit it! The author writing out the Yorkshire accent was the most difficult thing for me to read, and I did find myself skimming it sometimes, but that's no different from how I handle accents written out like that in any classic (ie. Wuthering Heights). Even still, it didn't detract from the story, and it was so easy to get sucked into the friendship between Mary, Dickon, and Colin, and the ending was super sweet as well.
I had a really good time with this sweet little story! It's a children's story, yes, but reading it, it doesn't feel like a book for children; the plot is just as captivating for an adult as it would be for a child, and that's what made it so lovely to read. I remember watching both the movie and the play about this story when I was younger, so the plot was familiar to me, but it was really nice to get to revisit it! The author writing out the Yorkshire accent was the most difficult thing for me to read, and I did find myself skimming it sometimes, but that's no different from how I handle accents written out like that in any classic (ie. Wuthering Heights). Even still, it didn't detract from the story, and it was so easy to get sucked into the friendship between Mary, Dickon, and Colin, and the ending was super sweet as well.