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Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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challenging emotional funny sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

um so I was going to put 'most normal repressed victorian' as my review. but then the ending happened. and now I feel like I've been punched in the gut lol. 
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens

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challenging dark funny reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

and what, in the end, if love was the thread that connects us all. 
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Gallathea by John Lyly

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

3.0

the humans just talking to the Gods really threw me through a loop like ????? 'Oh hi Neptune yea that's my kid XD' what do u mean????
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The Odyssey by Homer

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adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

still thinking about odysseus' 'heh nothing personnel kid moment' where he dodges that cow hoof and gives a sardonic little grin. dude really thinks he's an anime protag.
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How to Be Both by Ali Smith

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emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

I wish I could see this book as a whole and this book as a string of sentences in my head at the same time. 
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The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

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adventurous emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

my head hurts too many of these characters had similar names and also idk sometimes it was really good and interesting and sometimes it felt like me DMing a game of DND and opening in a tavern for the 5000th time. and ofc, there had to be all the usual isms for the time period... britomart I had feelings for you until I realised you're a glorified figurehead for the british empire okay peace out
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Metamorphoses by Ovid

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dark funny hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

this shit slaps tbh, Ovid wrote the Aeneid in a more interesting way than Virgil even though it was summarised... my favourite story was probably the one about Hecuba, or Medea because who doesn't love a girlboss. nobody does storytelling like Ovid. 
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The Aeneid by Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

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adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

2.0

virgil looked at homer and said 'okay but what if I did that but worse' sorry I know that's probably a common complaint / comparison but cmon... there WERE good bits but they were kind of lost in a sense of deja-vu and lots of like... just pointless bits idk I didn't care abt Aeneas that much, nor Turnus right up until the end that WAS a solid ending.
Pallas existed for like one book and then died rip lol.
 
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The Iliad by Homer

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adventurous dark emotional funny sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

this shit was wild my head is so fried rn, I like that Homer included a talking horse for about two lines and then immediately retconned it
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Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory

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

3.25

shout out to @eksplaine on Instagram for giving me some pre knowledge on Margaret, it was a fortunate coincidence to read this after watching her live blog Margaret's journey!!! go check her out 

meh my brain is really melted from reading this over the course of two days, I feel like Margaret was presented in an interesting light but the ppl complaining that she was super unlikeable feels like a bit of a double standard - ofc she kinda sucked she was a member of the British Royalty lol and her brother was a looooot worse but her story was overall pretty interesting!! it was just very long,, qnd things flipped and changed so much my mind got bundled up in a knot but I get that is reflective of the time period and my issue of keeping up haha
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