The Woman in White in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jan 28, 2016 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: romance, psych-psych-psych, mystery, classic, gutenberg, era-victorian, mistaken-identity, genre-blender, 1001-books

I did not really enjoy my time spent reading this bloated mystery/romance. I can appreciate that it was groundbreaking in its time, but I didn't need to be reading it now in my time.

There are so many great reviews about how fun this story is, I expected some masterful plotting with a big, shocking payoff. But what I've gotten is a great big pile of melodramatic twaddle centered around a heroine who is TSTL. Geez Laura, show that you actually have two brain cells, show some backbone, stand up fo ...more

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Oct 26, 2020 Astrid Lim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: british, classic, thriller-mystery, gothic

3,5 stars from me.

A solid, very dense gothic story about life in Victorian era XD Lots of crazy plots here - switching identities, escaped from asylum, unhappy marriage, money and wills. Ohh.. so juicy. But remember that this is a book written in Dickens era (the writer was actually Dickens' friend) - so please expect long sentences, flowery language and sensational plot.

The characters were drawn very detailed, though, so you can actually imagine them clearly. My favorite is Marian Halcombe - t ...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Grace rated it it was amazing

Description (source): Who is the mysterious woman in white who appears to the drawing instructor late one night? From whom is she fleeing? How is she connected with the woman the drawing instructor loves but cannot marry? And above all, what is up with the mysterious Count Fosco?

Review source: This was a free kindle book because it’s in the public domain.

Plot: The book was a little difficult to get started in, but once the woman in white appears, only a few pages in, things start to move quickly ...more

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Nov 24, 2013 Jessica Haider rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: south-shore-bookclub, classics, mystery, ghosts-n-stuff, 1001-books, london-calling

Okay, I've finished reading our "longest read of the year" book club book. Now, this baby can be born!

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One of my book clubs selected the classic Victorian novel "The Woman in White" as our January selection. "The Woman in White" is one of those classics someone (long forgotten who) recommended to me probably 15+ years ago, so I am glad that I finally got around to reading it. It definitely has the same "feel" as some of my favorite classics such as Rebecca, Jane Eyre, and Middlemarch an ...more

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