Status Updates From East Lynne

One second I am gagged, the other I am bewildered, the other I am amazed at the audacity of everyone, and the other I am bursting with laughter. Literally a victorian soap opera. Extremelyyyy entertaining and fast-paced. I just wish the prose was less plain; it's not lyrical at all. It just gets the job done. I feel like if it were more poetic I would've felt the 5 star tingling... let's see what happens tho!

okay so levison IS thorn??? jesus christ ellen i can’t keep up

“i would have married a girl without a slur—if i must have married” okay cornelia. very straight thing to say cornelia.

if barbara has no haters i am dead, fuck you barbara you’re just a shitty molly gibson

“murder thorn and levison are apparently two different people” okay
“carlyle wants to marry barbara” the FUCK???

pages and pages about barbara jilting people yet the train explodes in half a paragraph 😔

the two-way miscommunication trope is physically painful, jesus christ ellen

oh levison i do NOT like your energy and i do NOT like that isabel is being painted as an object who will be “led astray” instead of an active participant