A review by towercity
Letters of Two Brides (Dodo Press) by Honoré de Balzac

4.0

every Balzac novel seems to follow the same pattern: a relatively slow beginning picks up more and more as it goes on until, by the time you get to the middle, you suddenly realize you've become so drawn into the novel that you almost forgot the distinction between it and reality, and you continue in this state of confused reality until you reach the end of the novel and Balzac throws in a moral so dated to his time and so far from your own moral compass that you're torn from the reality of the novel and forced to wonder, "why did Balzac freakin do this?" this style is called realism, and Balzac is its unfortunate master. i personally cannot get enough