Status Updates From Hester Dark

Well. That was unexpected. Initially, I adored Hester. Intrigued for the first quarter. I thought it'd be a romance at times, at other times, perhaps a coming of age. But no, in the end it was just a horrible mishmash of people all cruel and crude, self-oriented to the extreme and focus on their positions and careers, with little positive character growth. I feel a slick of oil cover me after reading this....

What a bizarre novel that caught my eye at the library. It captures the 1919 setting Scotland/England vividly and the mindsets of the time. I'm a bit torn on the characters, though. I feel compassion for all of them, despite some of them doing awful things. Actually, all of them are fairly manipulative and self-serving. Hester is determined and strangely mature for 14. Maybe the era? She reads more like a 20-somethin