Hmmm.
I wanted to like this more, and I'm still wavering between two and three stars, but in the end I just felt it was too much of a struggle to get through. There's some lovely sensuous prose, occasionally a little purple, but I assumed that was deliberate to match Bovary's point of view. She's certainly an infuriating character, and while I don't need my protagnists necessarily to be "likeable", I find it hard to get on with a story whose main character winds me up this much. The ending is heavy with tragedy and irony, more for the husband and daughter than for Bovary herself.
Homais is a great supporting character though.