laurnoble's Reviews (180)

The plot is extremely 19th century but the story feels timeless, with prose that's thrilling and alive. (Which, kudos to this translator.)

I love the way Woolf takes you into a mind. Time is fake, emotions are high, every chaotic turn into memory and observation is a thrill.

There's something astonishing on almost every page. Rooney's narration is sharp in the most painful sense of the word. But there are several scenes that read more like posturing than storytelling, and it was enough to take me out of the reverie that the rest of the story did such a good job building.

(Also, controversial but I think it would have been just fine if the dialogue had normal quotation marks.)