theangriestowls 's review for:

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

4.0

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I listened to the audiobook which was very good, but if you can get your hands on an annotated version with translations of all the French, do that instead. There is SO much untranslated French. There were ideals and morals presented in the book which really disagreed with me but I think probably 90% of that was Victorian Morality Mess. Like everyone analyzing the proportions and angles of each others facial features to judge whether they are gracious/intelligent/kindly/evil all the time. Not a perfect book but interesting and very engaging.