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javinki_ 's review for:
I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
Another book which I've owned for yeeeaaars, but never read until now. As everyone else has already said, 'I Capture the Castle' is an utterly charming coming-of-age novel in the vein of the Brontes / Austen / usual suspects, with a thoughtful and endearingly ("consciously") naive 17-year-old narrator bringing the houses and dramas and humans that inhabit her world to life through journal-style prose. The narrative started to get a little too neat for my liking towards the end, but that didn't ruin the book by any stretch. By that point I was fully invested in a story which, on paper (lol), should've bored my tits off. The sign of a good book, huh?
That said, there's nothing quite as off-putting in a book as a quote on the back from JK Rowling, so I've sharpied her name off my copy - censorship rulez OK :)
That said, there's nothing quite as off-putting in a book as a quote on the back from JK Rowling, so I've sharpied her name off my copy - censorship rulez OK :)