A review by teen_writing_101
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

adventurous lighthearted reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

 Well. I thought that this was going to be promising at the start - a perfectly good, possibly even feminist, story of one girl's life told in an interesting way. I couldn't have been more wrong. The two main things I hated about this were Sybylla and the plot. I thought I liked her but then 50 pages in she started going on about being ugly and it just went downhill from there because she described herself as the ugliest person ever and then literally every man who she came into contact with fell wildly in love with her - she was honestly the original pick-me girl. She was also just... a bad person? I completely sympathised with some of her selfish impulses, but the way she treated Harry was awful and it seemed to be marketed as something that was okay because the main character was doing it and it was #disruptingthepatriarchy when actually their relationship made no sense, both of them weren't good for each other and they had zero chemistry. I hated the plot because it was non-existent. It only really started about 2/3 in and even then not much was going on. It was literary without being good and half the plot points didn't make much sense at all. Wouldn't recommend.