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“Well based from this Anne was not near the writer Charlotte was. She does not develop the characters well enough somehow, I did not feel anything for the good ones until very late in, if at all. I was irritated with the kids and terrible parents who are evils in this world that are all too real and yet she failed to really bring them to life in the book. The whole thing lacked a certain humanity or relatable quality, which is what, I think, left me distant and detached from the character. Anne did not have any of those pretentious and irritating bouts of French without their accompanying translation like Charlotte. But Anne instead she brought the whole thing down with pious dogmatic lecture and religious preaching coupled with her scolding soliloquies on social conduct. What a downer. On to the story itself. I sorry but I just have little to no respect for the heroin. She is weak, stands for nothing, and is in a situation in which should could stand up for her personal morality and yet does nothing: becomes part of the machine. The story, the writing, it was all just so: blah! Even the big I love you at the end was so weak. My reaction was all just like; "whatever." It really lacked the poetic aspect of many her sister or even J Austen. Maybe it was not long enough; so it did not have the length to develop with such slow action. ”
Docta wrote this review Wednesday, March 28, 2012.
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