A review by becca_g_powell
Adam Bede by George Eliot

5.0

Just lovely. I'm always amazed at Eliot's gift of making words work together in impossibly perfect ways. She knows how to write a sentence, and this book is full of them. It's absolutely beautiful. Beware if you read books for plot - It will take you a few hundred pages to get to a really interesting one. Instead, just take your time and soak up the pastoral imagery and poetic phrases. The story will be interesting enough when you get to it, but it takes a true craftsman to draw her reader deep into her book even while nothing much is going on.