Rebecca in Classics Without All the Class

Apr 17, 2011 Kristi Krumnow rated it really liked it

The long first half takes its sweet time to get to the more exciting marriage state. Nonetheless, it is an enjoyable little book.

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Dec 28, 2009 Shea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-romance, manchester-district-library, classics-challenge, romantic-suspense

I LOVED this book. There were so many things I enjoyed I don't know where to begin. I liked that it was told in the first person and the narrator had wandering thoughts and anxieties like a real person. She played out possible scenarios in her head, usually the worst case, and then had to wait, like everyone else, to see how things were going to turn out. She had fantasies, where real life never measured up, and had to deal with that too. The narrator was someone I could relate to because I have ...more

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Dec 08, 2012 Anthea Carson rated it it was amazing

This is one of the novels that I studied while trying to teach myself how to write--how to interest the reader, how to show rather than tell, how to give such a sense about a character who never appears on the page. That is an amazing accomplishment. To create such a mysterious and intriguing person who never appears in the story except in past tense, or descriptions by other characters.
I suppose you could say that is the easiest way to make a character seem so compelling. Never allow them to sp ...more

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Aug 30, 2009 Margaret rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book was GREAT! A wonderful, haunting story of a young girl who marries a man with secrets in his past. She becomes the new mistress at Waverly, her husband's home, not realizing that his first wife Rebecca still has a hold on him and on his life. ...more

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May 17, 2014 Ebster Davis rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: will-never-finish

The prose in this book is very pretty and very easy to read. Unfortunately pretty trash is still trash.

I got to about 120 pages and the whole time I was thinking "But I've already read Jane Eyre..."

Except this Jane Eyre is Bella Swan (Scratch that! I think I like Bella better. At least there are vampires and werewolves in that book!), Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester have absolutely zero romantic chemistry, and Mr Rochester kills Bertha Rochester.

Nice.

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