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A review by jassmine
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
4.0
Once again, I have to start a review with saying that I expected something else from a book. I'm not entirely sure what the something else I expected was in this case, because what I expected was:
✔ protofemist work
✔ alcoholism & marital abuse
✔ intricate narrative structure
And the book does have all of those! And yet, I expected... a different tone, maybe. Maybe a different characters. I expected to adore this book and it didn't happen but it is still pretty great book don't take me wrong!
The characters in this one were pretty interesting, because... I didn't particularly liked them as people. In the first part, Gilbert is pretty unsympathetic and I couldn't keep wondering what Helen sees in him (because we see her through Gilbert's eyes and she... she just shines for him). And then we get to Helen's part and it turns out that she has a terrible taste in men, so that tracks!
I also didn't expect religion to play such important role as it did and I have to say that it got to a point where it was annoying for me. There are bits that are clearly meant to be empowering moments for Helen, but even when I agreed with her, I just wished that her reasoning was different.
So yeah, this was a pretty weird book that turned out to be addictively readable for me and I quite enjoyed it (even though there were bits of annoyance in there too). This book has been on my radar for a while and I'm glad that I finally read it.
✔ protofemist work
✔ alcoholism & marital abuse
✔ intricate narrative structure
And the book does have all of those! And yet, I expected... a different tone, maybe. Maybe a different characters. I expected to adore this book and it didn't happen but it is still pretty great book don't take me wrong!
The characters in this one were pretty interesting, because... I didn't particularly liked them as people. In the first part, Gilbert is pretty unsympathetic and I couldn't keep wondering what Helen sees in him (because we see her through Gilbert's eyes and she... she just shines for him). And then we get to Helen's part and it turns out that she has a terrible taste in men, so that tracks!
I also didn't expect religion to play such important role as it did and I have to say that it got to a point where it was annoying for me. There are bits that are clearly meant to be empowering moments for Helen, but even when I agreed with her, I just wished that her reasoning was different.
So yeah, this was a pretty weird book that turned out to be addictively readable for me and I quite enjoyed it (even though there were bits of annoyance in there too). This book has been on my radar for a while and I'm glad that I finally read it.