olivia_donahue 's review for:

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

4.0

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the first half of this book was delightful. sebastian is a wonderful character i wish we got to know throughout the whole story. it had many gay undertones which i wish could have been explored, but i understand this wasn’t written in a time people could be explicit about those things. charles essentially moved from sebastian to his sister julia, which felt somewhat strange as if she were a placeholder for his one true love. i wish sebastian and charles could have reunited in the end, the last half was overall disappointing.