nosey667's reviews
191 reviews

this took me a little over a month to read (during the second half i had a long long break) and i think overall, i am glad i read it and jt was worth my time, but its not a classic i would particularly recommend, definitely not to the less experienced classic reader anyway. 
i found some characters endearing; Becky, Amelia, and Rawdon were my favourites. i found Amelia's storyline being my favourite, and was gripped by Becky's selfish nature (but also her selfishness being necessary to gain respect). Rawdon i didn't really notice until the second half, but i found him interesting, especially duieng the

sequence between him and Becky fighting.

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my main issues were, i found there were way too many characters to keep track of, none of them particularly unteresting enough for me to remember without googling, which made the experience much more long winded and uningeresting. secondly, i felt sometimes the ordering a bit off. a crazy event would happen to a character, and then the next 10 or so chapters would center around someone else (who has nothing much going on) when all i want to read about is the other character. the first half of the book also presented women in a way i didnt particularly enjoy. it wasnt so much their character, but that often they'd have stuff going on and the reader would learn about it through the male character's conversation. i think they could've had a much more present voice in the first half. this did improve later though.

there were some interesting characters (i really enjoyed in particular the bits focused on Septimus) but ultimately i found Woolf's long-winded writint style a bit too much for me. the paragraph-long sentences tired me and it took me way longer to finish than it should have

while i found the middle a bit of a slog (with multiple pov books i always tend to get a favourite and struggle with the rest) this book suprised me in the end! some dialogue was a bit cheesey but overall, without spoiling, this was a really clever way to write a book and use multiple povs. i found a certain character really endeaeing by the end. overall, the method really brought it up for me

helpful and pretty collection if fashion plates

eventhough I accidentally read Summer Lightning before this i still really enjoyed it!!! not quite as good as the later one in the series (presumably because its the first) but still really really silly and enjoyable. i really enjoyed the many intertwining plot points and characters (especially of Ashe and Joan) and all their funny ways of speaking. i only dont rate it 5 stars because im annoyed that

Aline and George got together after George harrassing her for the whole book and the author making a point of showing her as a woman who can make her own decisions, onto to have her randomly give in at the end