specialk136 's review for:

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

3.0

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This is my first experience with Thomas Hardy, and the man loves his pastoral descriptions. One of the perks of adulthood and reading for pleasure, though, is the ability to skip whatever passages I want, guilt-free. So I did. Tucked inside the paragraphs of lengthy description I found a surprisingly fast-moving plot about Bathsheba Everdeen and her three (!) suitors. Each is so different and could offer her different things; we watch her try to figure out her own mind and whether she even wants to marry at all. The course doesn't run smooth, and at times you want to smack her for not seeing who the right choice obviously is. But the ending is hard-earned by the characters and comes to a rewarding and sweet conclusion. Liked it.