charlottesometimes's Reviews (3.33k)

Flush

Virginia Woolf

3.0

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hell Followed with Us

Andrew Joseph White

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Beauty

Robin McKinley

2.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Dull

I wish I could get paid to lazily re-write a fairytale, making almost no changes. Having said that, Disney probably owes her a few quid for the ideas she did have.

I would personally not have called one of the characters ‘Ger’, and had his name repeated 30 times per chapter despite the fact that it is infuriating both to read and to imagine pronounced. I don’t know whether it’s ‘Grr’ or ‘Jer’, but both are just noises and not a good choice of name for a cod-historical fairytale character. Or any character, for that matter