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What Members Thought

Marita
Jul 15, 2024 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this book. There were intervals that were really interesting but others that were hard to piece together what was happening.

Looking back at the book now that I’ve ended it, it almost feels like she switched directions in the middle of the book- as though Bronte originally had Graham in mind as the love interest and decided later to make it Paul Emmanuel.

And it was hard to get on board with him as a love interest when Brontë had gone to great pains to descr
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Meagan
Jan 10, 2012 marked it as owned-but-not-yet-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics
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Trai
Jan 02, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: the-brontes, feminism
Karen Michele Burns
May 03, 2019 rated it really liked it
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Briar
Feb 21, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, tbr-owned
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May 08, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Oct 16, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Nolan
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